Best Hubcap Poems

I have this small birdbath
in my backyard
apparently the talk of the
whole Bird-town -- not much
larger than a good-size hubcap, 
one would think it was Lake Erie
size takes on different perspective
in the desert; like a prairie dog
is fat pheasant to a snake -- a jackrabbit
seldom fast...

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You can be my hubcap if you let me be your wheel.
The love I have for somebody like you is real.
I can give you plenty of loving.  I aim to please.
I will be your radiator if you will be my antifreeze.
You are so attractive...

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A Car Too Small

By Elton Camp

These high gas prices nearly all resent
From reasonable to scandalous it went
It’s a situation that I truly abhor
I can’t drive a Town Car anymore

To take a vacation in our SUV
Is a luxury we’ll never more see
For a Prius I was...

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Masters of Trickery

alien ornithopters filled with pilgrims
gliding in under a full moon
foul smelling unwashed bumbling
hubcap jockeys from artless galaxies
firing bursts of compressed methane
in wanton hypnotic quantities
ended civilization as we know it
the survivors reel in stupor
the land is barren its people wail
our women masturbate exclusively
our men...

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I
The form we take
In the shape of a life
From trumpet birth blasts
To the final shadow sighs
The faithful leap
From a Dayton hill
To silver supersonic flight
A mountain of yellowing
Paper words and work
Of worn shoes
Discarded styles
An inland lake of soapy water
A dark, cool mystery mine of sleep
A warehouse...

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Driving along orange and lavender blue peaks 
Where Littledeer’s rabbits parade through 
Rolling hills of pink and yellow wildflowers
Along the French River and broad rapids 
Down in the valley on a golden Fourth of July 
Iridescent tiny hummingbirds 
Whirl around a garden of ten foot...

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Beyond the paved two-lane with its solid centerline,
and bounded by NO TRESPASS signs; 
beyond the turn-off onto gravel and the last barking dog 
who keeps pace with my hubcap; 

to a landing where I park my car and walk away: 
no signs of ownership, no...

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BIKER 
The night sky is made of black tar, and broken glass,
And the moon, if you melt it in a spoon, once was an old hubcap.
So by the light of night, ride the Milky Way’s bright stars
And by day, cruse the endless highway, 
Via cheap...

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neighborhood watch
                               a hubcap    propped 
      ...

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I have an important message
for man's best friend
humming like rolling wheels at 90
incandescent like a hubcap overhead
listen to this you highway palm readers
the pressure in this tire
is anatomically incorrect
and at four atmospheres
ALERT!  ALERT!
all radar units report your locI and foci
on the plan-it planet,
space never...

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no one saw it coming they never do
the phone poles were giving off sparks
dogs began to howl birds flocked to the sky
A Plymouth hubcap of immense proportions
quivered and droned in the air over the capitol
television screens from one coast to the other
blinked and flashed and...

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Eventhough these colors abound
black and white is all thats found

Right and wrong,good and evil
careless in our seats we swivel

Sympathetic try to be
for the pathetic twisting me

Can't shake'em since they know know better
can't get loose from tightening fetters

Their pain I feel,I try too deal
but it's like...

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like a run away hubcap spinning down the road...your life spins out of control; 
how will this end—on a rocky hillside or a soft grassy knoll?

with forehead wrinkles and squinted vision you watch hopes and dreams burst into flames 

flames igniting your inner core to...

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On my morning walk, which is
Adjacent to the river,
A small surprise is sometimes what
The city does deliver.

So yesterday, I heard a thump,
Metallic, so I slowed,
Expecting that a hubcap flew
From somewhere on the road.

Instead, I saw a sewer cover
Quaking as it rose
And crashed back down above...

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We settled into Baltimore after rejecting several locations after the dreaded shoot out thus move seemed right although two Suburban trucks tailed us from the airport the driver was excellent at distracting our surroundings I wasn't afraid this time I was more drained the children...

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