Traffic Life : Passionate Tales and Exit Strategies
Edited by Stephan Wehner
An Anthology
 
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78 Declaration of the Right to Walk and Roll United States, the State of Texas, the County of Travis, and the City of Austin. In entering upon the great work before us, we anticipate no small amount of misconception, misrepresentation, and ridicule; but we shall use every instrumentality within our power to effect our object. We shall employ agents, circulate tracts, petition the city, county, regional, state and national legislatures, and endeavor to enlist the pulpit, performing and visual arts and all communications media in our be- half. We hope this event will be followed by a series of like events, embracing every part of the city, and eventually the county, the state, and the country. Firmly relying upon the final triumph of the Right and the True, we do this day affix our signatures to this decla- ration.
  
On Driving: Three Poems Patricia Wellingham-Jones Flatlanders Head for the Hills The '51 brand new car cranked around hair-pin turns, swooped through crossings, out-ran stray dogs. Father clutched the wheel, blue eyes blazing. Mother, pale beside him, clucked her tongue. Bottoms bounced, rough-fibered seat rubbed red patches on tan bare skin. My sister and I peered through open windows' rushing air at ambling cows, valley lakes and peaks. Shrilled our excitement in Father's overwrought ear. Mother wrung thin hands, moaned soft and low. We roared through Adirondacks to our cousin's country home, left a few feathers in our wake. Final flourish of the wheel, brakes shrieked inches from the door. Father swaggered, Mother staggered from the car. Amply impressed, my uncle asked, ­ 79 ­

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