9. Better Them Than Me

I look out the window.
Cars look like ants.

They follow the rules and avoid collision.
One guy just honked. He’s annoyed by something.
But after a while he, too, follows the order.

From up here I see order in the streets.
I see it in the way houses are built around the city.
From up here, order seems to work.

Ha! Someone just broke the order.
This driver should have calculated better.
He’s now blocking cars with a green light.
And so the innocent pays for the faults of the guilty.

Why couldn’t the guilty man wait?
Maybe he was distracted.
Or he didn’t realize traffic was stuck on the other side.

This makes me wonder…
Could it be that making the innocent pay a small price is sometimes better?
Hey! Someone else is breaking the rules.

There’s a really loud car.
The music…
He probably wants to share it with others.
How nice of him.
He likely thinks that everyone shares his taste.

Now I hear an ambulance.
People make space for it. Oh wait!
It's not an ambulance. It's a fire truck.
Order was broken, and fire broke out.
These brave men will restore order.

Is order always good?
Do rules really benefit everyone?
Should we follow them blindly?

The rule says I have to go work for money now.
Break’s over.