The Wrong-Way Driver

Cook & Crank: The Cosmic Poetry Podcast

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The Wrong-Way Driver

A Sonnet read by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole

The Spoken Whole

Jan 14, 2026

Don't some people always seem to be going the wrong way in life? This sonnet is about them. From the Poems For Ocean collection.

Reel-to-Reel image by Joe Haput CC BY

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