cocker under wheels

Maybe if Overton Park had bike AND walking lanes, maybe, just fucking maybe, I wouldnt have ran over that little cocker spaniel puppy. Maybe if dude didnt borrow my bike, my brakes would still be working. Maybe if the family didnt take up the entire pathway, maybe I would have just flown on by, hearing only the buzz of my bike. Maybe, if I veered to the left just a bit more, maybe I wouldn't have hit the poor pup and ran into a tree instead. Maybe if my shock didnt succumb me, maybe I could have yelled, "get out the way" in spanish. But NONE of these maybes happened and I shake my fists to the universe.