Do not pass.
That isn't a broken yellow line;
just too many dead possums.

Plastic orange bags litter the highway.
Adopt-a-highway.
If you don't keep it clean,
we'll make you do "public service".
Cleaning up someone elses adopted highway?

The road gets better past the
"End County Maint" sign.
Why is there a "1 mile" marker
on a two mile road?

It's dark.
The train is invisible except
for the glow of the crossing lights.
The best landmarks are the Maintenance-of-Way cars;
they keep moving them though.

I'd obey the sign on my side of the road
but something folded over its steel post;
something coming the other way.

Don't hit that in the middle of the road.
"That" is a "Them".
Squirels.
Shameful public display.

It may be hot today; it may rain.
It was both.