I Know Who Killed Me

"She knew a trick. 

"She knew how to turn her life into a movie

and watch things happen.

"Not to her,

but to a girl who looked just like her.

"Was she the runaway

"with everything she owned

in a ratty old backpack?

"Or, was she watching a movie about

a hitchhiking runaway on a lonely highway?

"A truck slowed till the girl squinted

in his headlights.

"But one good look at her

"and the trucker couldn't get out of there

fast enough.

"She didn't even have the strength

to curse him

"as she choked on the dust

of his spinning wheels."