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If 20 Miles Per Hour Caused Cancer

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If twenty miles per hour and faster

were proven risk for cancer,

speed would be disease.

We would attend seminars on slowing down,

preach against moving too fast,

and mourn too-many of our too-speedy loved ones.

Speed limits would be posted in journals

but unnecessary along our roads.

61 would be minimum legal age for sprinting.

Health food stores would sell slowing vegetables

harvested by nearby, slow farmers,

and, as well,

sell speeding herbs

believed in certain cults to grant immunity.

If 20 miles per hour caused cancer

the word “automobile” would be old-fashion,

a quaint mistake of inventive evolution

on the road to the all-weather Sport Utility Chair.

the trendy Hand-Made Low-Gear Bicycle,

and, of course, the Humphrey:

Hybrid Horse-Horseless buggy

fueled half-time by stew of its own manure.