Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE SAFE DRIVER, by WALT MASON Poet's Biography First Line: Along the street I drive my car, my rate of Last Line: "gets it in the neck, is he who swears by safety first!" Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Roads; Paths; Trails | ||||||||
ALONG the street I drive my car, my rate of speed is safe and slow. I pull up where the children are, and give pedestrians a show. Some day pedestrians will be, by statute, from our highways cast, for any candid man must see that they're a nuisance, first and last. But since they are permitted here, in spite of motorists' appeals, I hold it wise my car to steer so they won't get beneath the wheels. I watch the street where'er I go, and dodge all live stock gone astray, and toot my horn that men may know my juggernaut is on the way. The road rules I have all by heartI learned the whole blamed list, complete, and no man ever sees my cart upon the wrong side of the street. And while I exercise such care, while modestly my motor hums, along the teeming thoroughfare some badly locoed speed fan comes. He knocks the sawdust from some gent who hasn't time to climb a tree, and then, without or with intent, he slams his car right into me. I say, when from the dismal wreck I climb, and realize the worst, "The man who gets it in the neck, is he who swears by Safety First!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HE FINDS THE MANSION by JAMES MCMICHAEL BY DIFFERENT PATHS by MARVIN BELL DRIVING HOME by MADELINE DEFREES ART IS PARALLEL TO NATURE by CLARENCE MAJOR |
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