Disability Studies Quarterly
Fall 2004, Volume 24, No. 4
<www.dsq-sds.org>
Copyright 2004 by the Society
for Disability Studies



Reality

Lucy Birbiglia
Email: lbirbiglia1@earthlink.net


I stand, cane at curb, waiting

For the sounds ahead to halt,

the traffic at my right to surge

forward, hoping no driver will turn

Into my path, honking me out of his way.

Are the sounds in the street vehicles?

Or moving sound effects?

Is it a truck because it roars?

I'm no Descartes,

but I have my issues with reality.