The Speedometer Is Working Even When You Don’t Move
If I wanted to have lived my life at the same average speed as Johnny Appleseed I would need from now until death to be in utter stillness
I would not be able to plant any orchards nor to spread any gospel with my mouth
Though perhaps people would come to visit me and I could get some gospel on them then
I would sit in an unmoving chair and offer them Royal Dansk cookies from a tin
When it was empty I would call it my hat
They would have to let themselves out
Johnny Appleseed loved to plant dogfennel
Dogfennel is a noxious and invasive weed
Source: Poetry (September 2024)