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DEAD END STREET --WHY do dead end roads Exist "Are you my enemy, if you’re not my friend? Alternative exit without exit should be posted dead end When “Google” tells you turn right at the bend Daylight night time Run Johnny Run gets dark at ten ~ Its GPS systems “Google” shows and tells you the road there Maybe curb site lodging house in front of thee As connecting when they actually do not trail, where? I fell off the rugged deep end plummeting free ~ Keeping wheels on the road round, round you go Rounded end to facilitated to slow, flow on cul-de-sacs I driving off the freeway, spinning my way to and fo Up down alleys down yield, slow, stop, dead end signs surface ~ Disconnected streets filled with trash cans, homeless and police Crimes and gangs’ darkness rends why do dead end roads exist? Limit through-traffic in residential areas. Conjure up visions of quiet suburban bliss, Curb line barrier curbs sidewalks houses meet barriers Far removed from dangers and noisy high-speed traffic ~ One with low wages and no hope of promotion No speeders, skate boarder, permitted on the shoulders Cul-de-sac deadlock stalemate blank wall blind alley Catch me if you can you can’t I am running blindly ~ Short street with a bulbous end, or even to the end just a portion Why do neighborhoods have dead ends? A long road that is a no-through road and terminates abruptly All those speed bumps, curbs, Cul-de-sac deadlocks not our friends ~ Dead ends are added to road layouts in urban planning To limit through-traffic in residential areas no one carrying Is the dead end a road or street, an alley or sidewalk meet No through road or no exit road, Is a street with only one inlet or outlet? When you come upon a dead end" 11/13/23 DEAD END STREET Poetry Contest Sponsored by: John Lawless
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