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)