Story Problems Poem by Hans Ostrom

If an airplane is traveling west
at an average speed of 883 kilometers
per hour, and a train is traveling east
at an average speed of 56 kilometers
per hour, and several math teachers
are in an automobile that is
spinning in a counterclockwise direction on an
iced-over asphalt highway in Wyoming,
and a high-school student in Memphis,
Tennessee, is allowing for a seven-hour
difference as she places a telephone
call to a cousin in Europe, then how
might we best calculate the rate
at which things will or will not turn out
all right for people who are real and/or
hypothetical as this sentence approaches
its destination, traveling both at the speed(s)
it is written and the speed(s) it is read?