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Alex's avatar

This perfectly describes the interminable roadworks and traffic on the way into Glasgow, and I am guessing applies to basically every city. Wonderfully frustrating sonnet

ROY WALLACE's avatar

Well done. But there are drugs for this.

Ken Gordon's avatar

14 lines is the drug of choice!

Ernest Hilbert's avatar

This is about driving in Philadelphia, my friend!

Ken Gordon's avatar

I couldn't find a good public domain painting about Philly traffic. George Bellows' *New York* was as close as I could come. Sorry about that, Ernie. ;)

Mike Rogers's avatar

Oh how I empathise! I feel that "appropriate swearing" should be a compulsory element in any driving test. BUT I do think Ernest should follow the rules of his own road and sort the scansion. A free ration of expletives, exclamations and interjections does not exempt from metrical counting (the rhyme-scheme is fine, if surprising). The guy just blew HIS RIG right through that sign would fix it - though the geese are short a coupla wing-beats... Them what's shortuva foot don't have no right to crittercise...