The Collapse

Summer rush hour in DC
Traffic crossing the Potomac
Tour guides entering the city
For the first tours after COVID

On a small overpass bridge
There was a traffic jam
A fender bender on the edge;
Around it cars would cram

The driver of a damaged car
Got out to check his fender
But as he stood near the safety bar
What he saw was a mind-bender

The bridge trembled like an earthquake hit;
concrete crumbling due to imperfections
Like a loose bolt a bicycle could get
To wound its rider in an intersection

A lifeliner landed near the edge
As the bridge perched in place for a minute
It rescued a baby, a man with a cane
And someone who worked in the Senate