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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=531044" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Detour</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where would they have gone<br>If they had not driven off that day<br>Down the Redwood Highway</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As far as where, until that morning, <br>The two southbound lanes<br>Had been supported by a bridge? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">There were no 'DETOUR AHEAD' signs<br>Except for the slight shaking and<br>The rhythmic rocking of their car.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'What's that? she asked.<br>'I think we're getting a flat, '<br>Was his response until</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He realized his headlights<br>Had stopped seeing<br>The reflectors and road lines.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then they both saw<br>The other side<br>With only darkness in between.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At 60 mph there seemed nothinig<br>Between where they were and<br>Where the road begain again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Instantly, she was attempting<br>To get in the back seat<br>To protect their children.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He was slamming both feet on the pedals, <br>Gripping the wheel, fighting for control<br>Of their VW Bug that was already airborne.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Through his windshield<br>He saw<br>What an earthquake can do</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To a highway engineer's assumptions of<br>Friction coefficients and <br>The constant force of gravity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Page ones across the world<br>Sunday morning had pictures<br>Of where they had landed; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Upside down<br>Thirty feet below<br>Where the bridge deck had been.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Front driiver's side<br>Mag wheel <br>Ripped off.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Re-bar slices<br>Can-opener like tears<br>On a grey car door.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The papers tell of little more<br>About him, his wife<br>And their three children: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Twin boys age nine<br>And a girl<br>Age four.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Except that<br>'They were packed <br>For a three-day holiday.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now instead taken<br>To two local hospitals.<br>Expected to recover</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From various injuries sustained...'<br>What did that reporter know? <br>He wasn't there.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If not for this detour, <br>Where would<br>The road of life taken them? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Because of it, <br>Where are they now? <br>Such is life.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Tom+J.+Mariani">Tom J. Mariani</a><div class=q>
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If they had not driven off that day
Down the Redwood Highway

As far as where, until that morning, 
The two southbound lanes
Had been supported by a bridge? 

There were no 'DETOUR AHEAD' signs
Except for the slight shak..."></div>
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