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emily m Dec 2011
emergency repairs to broken roads,
being less than expected,
i prompt some to ask too much.

damage,
storm-related damage,
a million surrenders
by early november,
i throw my arms up
suspending the normal.

wind, waves washed out
every east-west highway,
bypassed permission -
no such thing as
waiting for a good day.

bring in the guard and
hire flaggers, rebuilders
take gravel and rock from the
brooks and rivers,
reduce the cost of me,
consider me open to
no lanes of traffic
crossed-off gates in an absence of hope.

major reconstruction,
let's have a conversation about
existing doesn't mean just fixing
wounds suffered from the storm;

some words of warning -
be careful buying stake
in a girl who's longing for
the day she'll wake up and feel
relief from drowning.
Elise Jul 2015
I just passed where the accident was
when I was little whenever we passed something like that my parents would make me cover my eyes
But this time I couldn’t cover my eyes
I saw it all
the mangled car
the skid marks which stopped at the edge of the cliff where the car went off
the police taking pictures of the wreck their faces emotionless and blank
the flaggers slowly letting people through, smoking away the stress of what they saw
I feel for the officer who had to tell the family “There’s been a fatal accident” and I feel for the family who had an officer knock on their door and say “There’s been a fatal accident”
And I wish
That my parents were there to say “close your eyes” so I didn’t have to see the violence and sadness of life and death
But this time
I had to drive by
Eyes wide
to the reminder that no one has forever
Written after driving past the scene of a fatal car accident on highway 18
skyy omalley Jun 2020
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Yenson Sep 2019
One Man Sublime was there
The Ridiculous Thousands trampled along too
the game started and the play continued for over thirty years
One Man Sublime was always ahead despite various fouls and *****-play
The Ridiculous Thousands threw everything including the kitchen sink at One Man Sublime, no inch, no quarter given
One Man Sublime held on to the lead with astonishing skill and grace style, clever footwork and eh....sublime moves
The Ridiculous Thousand were frustrated, outplayed and ill-mannered, loutish and lacking proper training, it was all brawn
And on so many occasions, TRT were left with eggs on their faces
One Man Sublime showed so much class, a performance on note
Never once too troubled, flagging or outplayed
Cream always rises to the top, they say and this was the case here

At half-time
One Man Sublime was head and shoulders above
The Ridiculous Thousands were foul-mouthed flaggers,
they were hurling all types of negativeness, sore angry juveniles
out-classed all the way by One Man Sublime
At Interview One Man Sublime said...
Hey! you can't put a good man down, I just played it straight, fair and true, it was that simple
Yes, they did nasty, totally unpleasant and absolutely illegal plays,
but you expect that from nasty people, and they are ill-bred and nasty
The Ridiculous thousands grunted, the majority always wins
we are the majority, end off
One Man Sublime, replied....How charming, whats sublime about that!!..............
Barton D Smock Mar 2017
the memory
before I have it
of this terrible
thing
I’ve done

/ and the fish
the flaggers
of blue
runways
are swimming
two by two

/ and god has no one

— The End —