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Book 20 Page 43

 

Big truck

 

Big truck boring down the road,

a 50 ton mass of semi trailer.

Big truck boring down the road and

- up against your car- it ‘impailes ya.’

 

“Give way to the left” I say,

but also to anything that’s bigger.

At least that’s the traffic rule I go by,

that’s the survival plan I figure.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cause there’s this gigantic truck boring down the road with its

black smoke churning,

and 26 six wheels a turning.

with engine a -battling,

and gates and metal a -rattling,

 

and the entire road it’s taking,

a squealing and a braking.

and I’m sitting here shaking

with this huge mammoth big truck ‘over taking.’

 

Big truck boring down the road,

how’s it make you feel,

a  solid mass of machinery,

a fifty ton mass of steel.

 

© Written by Dominic John Gill www.poetry.net.au  dominicj7@poetry.net.au Created on 5/11/00