Damian Rucci

How A Car Accident Made Me A Poet

Looking back on it now, with hindsight and the kind of time that living through a global pandemic allows, I finally was able to look back on the last six years of my life. Reanalyzing your life is a difficult process. While things are happening and the beat is moving and you’ve got fire under your heels there is no time to turn around or to try and see where your choices will lead you. Sure, some folks have that level of hindsight but I’ve never been one to wait around and study how things would turn out. Well I used to be, there was a time when I was a young lost twenty year old and all I did was plan, plan, plan. Instead of doing or just picking up the baseball bat and taking a swing, I would pace around my basement apartment and daydream. I built up an entire dimension of what could be but I never pulled the trigger.