Henan Highway Stretch
ultraviolet brides in maroon skin
line night highways
trucks bend bars to pass
cross bridges that can't bear
watermelon & pig weight
& only one survivor dies
when it finally breaks
one death to bear the weight
of so much meat
& so much dripping down our chins
one nameless diesel-stained
man-- or barring his survival
one lower-end official
(hospital officials cannot yet confirm
(and must not be a woman
or at least a mom