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That is the extent of my poeticalness this evening......just that one line as I turned the corner today and discovered that the city had fired up a street sweeper in place of the plow...........
Have at it ladies...........
Keep adding on and we'll see how many lines we can get...
Ode to the Street Sweeper
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Oh great sweeper, though in my town you suck (it's a vacuum)
You keep my bike free of sharp things that get stuck
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As I skid through gravel in the seedy part of town,Quote:
Originally Posted by Lifesgreat
It is your presence that I would really like to be around
Ridding the streets of all manner of trash,Quote:
Originally Posted by mimitabby
Sand and other stuff that could cause me to crash.
You're swirling the debris and sweeping everything
And since you're not a snowplow, YOU ARE A SIGN OF SPRING!!!
Street sweeper haiku
Roaring down the street
Debris replaced by noises
And then by smoothness
Street sweeper? Wha? :confused: Flybye, you can't tell me you didn't have plows this week, cuz we did (and might get them tomorrow, too). I've not seen a hint of a sweeper yet.
(My route today has most definitely NOT been visited by any street sweeper, road crew, or good samaritan. Dodged boulders large and small--including ones rolling off the hillside as I rode by, moose poo, and was stopped from going further by snow.)
Oh, Yellow! What part of Utah are you in? I am sorry!!!! We have been COLD at night, 20-30ish range, but we have had enough days above freezing to melt the snow from everywhere but the shady areas that had large drifts. I went north last night - about 50 miles or so - and they still had snow in the fields. Yesterday we saw 50 degrees for a couple of hours. I am surprised that you still have snow. Every time I have been in Utah in the spring you have us beat by 8-10 degrees. Sorry - Spring is coming!! Promise.Quote:
Originally Posted by yellow
Well, I guess I should come clean, too. We have snow in the forecast this week. I doubt it will stay, though.
When the street sweeper ran the red light
It gave me a terrible fright
He ran into my Beetle
Now I'm on pins and needles
Whenever I'm riding my bike
Karen
Although you don't visit me, here in my town
You turn many a frown upside down
Your sweeping and cleaning make debris disappear
While ridding worrying bikers of tire shredding fears
Yikes, Karen! Maybe I'm glad we don't have a street sweeper here.
A little free-form here:
plowing through the snow
slipping sideways down the ice
spirit sagging, but
a tiny spark of hope is still there
that..
Yes! That sweet black stripe!
Street cleaners, I LOVE YOU!
:p
No parking on this side
Every other Friday 3-5
Streetsweepers, though I've not seen you before
Thanks for this date I won't get "door'ed" :)
If a man is called to be a street-sweeper, he should sweep streets...so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, "Here lived a great street-sweeper who did his job well." -Martin Luther King Jr.