Best Jaywalking Poems

jaywalking laws, can’t cross the road 
but you can own the gun you load 
shooting bullets and taking lives 
can’t cross the road from left...

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Sure I jaywalk he said. It’s in my genes.
I inherited this trait from my father.
I cannot help it.
He always jaywalked too.
I was astounded.
We had known...

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I lived in Shenzhen, China, for my 6th and 7th grades - China was AMAZING.

In China, blond hair is unusual, I stood out like neon...

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Geese, Goslings and the Bridge

Sometimes, when you least expect it, Mother Nature makes a u-turn and draws you into the ridiculous.  Such was the...

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You may find this hard to believe
But I just saw a monkey
Drive by me doing eighty
In a Maserati 

Eating rainbow ice cream
In a cone from...

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* Dedicated to Constance, the Rambling Poet
   Written for her "Follow the Rules" contest
   By Carolyn Devonshire

For simply failing to walk...

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In the experience of a great love, everything that happens becomes an event related to that love. ~ Romano Guardini 

As I drive by the...

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The city has evacuated the streets at this hour,
and vacancy has given his unsteady feet 
right of way at every intersection. 
The traffic lights, sticklers...

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No jaywalking, 
Instead use the overpass; 
No loading and unloading 
Of passengers male or lass.

No parking
Of the cars old and new; 
No overspeeding, 
Eyes watch...

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Jimmy Jeevers jaywalked
on Jefferson on the last
day of January while wearing
his jaunty jester hat which
slipped over his jolly eyes
when a speeding Jeep jammed
him between two...

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Elegy for Heidi 
            I
The clock ticks away.
But there is no layer of time...

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transmitted trashy talks
(partially presented pablum pertaining 
     particularly - president ***** (PAC -
     phallic action cum mitt...

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A nurse takes time
To hang a DNA rainbow strain
Of Christmas bulbs
Along my gray window ledge

He plugged them in
Bringing a campfire glow of embers
Under my lids
And...

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I landed in  slammer with Trixie, a red-headed prostitute with hilarious stories.
Pretty soon her friend Lulu was tossed in. They sat in the corner...

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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Jovial Dr Jekyll played for juvenile Justice
              ...

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