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Ode To Almost Any Traffic Light

Yes, change, as always, in my face;
I slam the brates so quickly
I get the bends; my pulses race;
My skin turns wet and prickly.

Yet you’re the gauge, I’ve realized,
With which this driver’s reckoned
That his whole life is synchronized–
I’m slow about a second!

by Ray Romine Wednesday, January 28, 1953

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