A glimpse at my car will attest
That I have travelled through the west:
Yosemite and Yellowstone
In lurid colors there are shown;
Grand Canyon, Tetons, Hoover Dam.,
Have seen me come, and look, and ‘lam.
This windshield section here is leased
By pictures from the north and east:
Michigan, Maine and Vermont
Saw me on last summer’s jaunt;
Ontario–and shut my mouth ,
For right beside it is the south,
And cotton fields and Georgia Tech
Show where I went on ‘5O’ s trek.
The time has come to call a halt!
Not that the scenery is at fault;
Not that I miss my bed and table;
Not that the old car isn’t able;
Not that I’m one whose interest flickers:
I just can’t see out for the stickers.
by Ray Romine Wednesday, October 31, 1951
