last week a milk truck overturned on the motorway

causing several fatalities and dozens of casualties

and we drove past the stretch of road about twenty

minutes after it happened and saw the bodies laid

out and the cars crushed and the lorry driver whimpering

and the mothers crying and the paramedics terrible

frantic as people died in their arms and the milk

was everywhere drying in the sun and mixing with

the blood they hadn’t mopped up yet and everything

was a paler shade of what it had been before but all

i could think about was how much it stank.