My Commute: A Poem

Lightly I dash
Away in my car
Right time for once
I have no alarm

Then construction
Lands in my way
Chop out whole lanes
Leaving pits all day

I enter interstate
Interstate queues
Crazies tailgating
Giving me the blues

Lady behind me
Cellphone chatting
She keeps peering
At her floor matting

Zigging she goes
Zagging she weave
I pray inten’ly
My ass she does leave

I breathe relief
The lanes are shift
Pleasure short lived
A jam up ahead

Crawling through roads
Left car breaks right
Right off the lanes
I see no turn light

Once past trouble
Twice I do turn
Easy I breathe
Will I ever learn?

I’m not out yet
I detour forth
Am shocked? No way!
A car then turns north

He runs the stop
Stop sign he runs
Ignores my crossing
Get out! Damn you bum!

I keep driving
confident now
Another stop-runner
Fuck off! Damn you sow!

Fin’lly see it
My mood massage’d
My beloved!
Oh! Parking Garage!

Finis’

snap snap snap

Well done, sir.

… I pulled out my pistol
and blew 'em away

From “Blow 'em away” by Chuck Brodsky

Huh. I always thought David Wilcox wrote that.

It’s got a good beat and I can dance to it. I also like the bum/sow fuck-off.

Got a bit messy in the middle, but what a finish.

Well, it’s hard to find good rhymes for some of these. Of course, it’s a pretty cheezy ditty anyhow.