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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