Utopia Parkway 

Utopia Parkway
in Queens
Five miles of traffic
and injury
The booming, fuming
Irony

The fruit of a world war
economy
Damaging so many
Who continue to say:
It’s the only way
it can’t but be
The tao of death
and lunacy

Elliot Sperber is a writer, attorney, and adjunct professor. He lives in New York City and can be reached at [email protected] and on twitter @elliot_sperber