average college student, seven digits long,
fast car driver makes mistake, this poem is a song.

license plate an instant, a movie after eight
teenage son likes shaved ice, not incident of hate,

at the soda fountain, a parking lot, some cars,
a movie at eye level, gazing at the stars.

Refrain:
there was distance, there was time
there was warning, then there's rhyme
from the night street shadows "asphalt fighter flashes"
"look at my turning radius", black car, red meat, some ashes

In the middle space at a city parking mall
drive thru's "big on Little Rock", never feeling small

Little Timmy Terrible Two's only tried to play
"you can't catch me" Daddy and starts by running away

Daddy Mesmer wanted "Pretty Lady of the Van".
Little Timmy Terrible Two's runs to the blind side Sam.

Refrain:
there was distance, there was time
there was warning, then there's rhyme
from the night street shadows "asphalt fighter flashes"
"look at my turning radius", black car, red meat, some ashes

Little Timmy runs farther and farther, no attention paid,
Daddy Mesmer talks faster and faster, hoping to get laid.

two year olds on parking lots, can't you see the tiny tots?
Your own son a step away, how long does it take you just to say

"Hey Mr.  watch your kid", I tried to break your trance
But instead you charged me and now you've missed your chance

Refrain:
there was distance, there was time
there was warning, then there's rhyme
from the night street shadows "asphalt fighter flashes"
"look at my turning radius", black car, red meat, some ashes

Like a fire hose gone astray, your acrimony raged.
stopping 10 feet short you were threatening the sage.

I looked up from my snow cone, Pretty Lady of the Van.
Does her gun give Daddy Mesmer the courage to be a man?

"You always get a warning", I said to Daddy M.
but he could not hear me, he was hateful Sam.

Refrain:
there was distance, there was time
there was warning, then there's rhyme
from the night street shadows "asphalt fighter flashes"
"look at my turning radius", black car, red meat, some ashes

Pretty Lady of the Van shot me an extra look of hate,
It must have been right there, she sealed Little Timmy's fate.

Vitriol is squirting, like oil, from his Daddy's eyes,
the black car turns too quickly, a scream, they realize

Something bad was begging, a prince of darkness prayer
More souls for me and less for you, you had your say so there

Refrain:
there was distance, there was time
there was warning, then there's rhyme
from the night street shadows "asphalt fighter flashes"
"look at my turning radius", black car, red meat, some ashes
 
Unable to provoke us, they left us empty handed.
Once the ambulance had taken off, the crowd it was disbanded

As I spoon a snow cone,  my hand it always shakes,
Over that decision that Daddy Mesmer makes

As I spoon a snow cone,  my hand it always shakes,
Over that decision that Daddy Mesmer makes