L.A.

L.A.

It is a place…

but no place.

Plain cars enter

like insane freshets.

The family car is anxious

while it zooms past its exit.

L.A. is not

something to grasp

nor visit languidly,

for mercury is pumped

into their tanks.

Now they’re rascal racers.

Pray they do not fall

from their conveyance

for once adrift on L.A.’s freeways—

their parts will be found on E-Bay.

Charles Inge lives in Lynden, Washington and has given us many poems!

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