Best Stay Off Poems

All along the thoroughfare 
To freeways of the metroplex
Weary workers are coming home
They own the road from 4 to 6

Yes that's the worst time of the day 
It's like a harpy's metal zoo
Where chances you could have a wreck
Are ten times greater multiplied by two.

If...

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I must warn you, don’t board that ship, Ishmael.
The captain has an obsession, and is doomed to fail.
He seeks to kill this legendary white whale.
There are many other ships in this place you can board.
Many whaling vessels sail in and out of New Bedford.
On a...

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Please stay off icy 
Nineteen-year-old-girl is dead.
Please stay off the roads
Highway patrolman on news.
Is begging us to stay home

Ice under the snow
Do not travel anywhere
Car ran into bridge
East I- 70 is closed
Highway patrol is crying


Please stay off icy
Your life is too important
Your children love you
Nineteen-year-old-girl...

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we fought over the frog poking stick
water snake sizzled past
brothers, supposed to be babysitting
stay off the dock mom had said
Gus, our golden,  retrieved her when she fell in...

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