Last Night I Drove A Car

Last night I drove a car

poem by Gregory Corso
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The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment.

quote by Herbert Marcuse
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Governor's Mansion

In Oklahoma where state pride reigns supreme
From the Governor's Mansion to football fields
This new state has much moxie and excitement 
Where much beauty is available for windshields

We all worked together and made our Mansion
That special place to host goverment with pride
Walls filled with history and early day memories
Items that will serve future Okies as their guide

poem by John McCornack
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Asleep At The Wheel

Do you ever stop to count all the invitations
At the end of the day when it comes down to one decision
Of dead beat girls and freaks at a peoples convention
All these sugars with no vitamin sensation
Do you ever stop to look over old relations
Or look to the belly of another ones emotions
Someone young in the winds of a revolution
Trying to save his face in the evolution
Asleep at the wheel
No windshield
But you know that the streets
Here dont change
Hes kept alive in the chain of mental starvation
Bone rail skinny, only feeding off frustration
Unlike you who seem bred from corruption
Feeding off the plates of an ununited nation
Asleep at the wheel
No windshield
But you know that the streets
Here dont change

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song performed by Wallflowers
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Car Park Syndrome

Why are you always discontented
wherever you park the car?
Even in an enormous empty car park
you're never happy where you are.

poem by Tex T Sarnie
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Our manners are in a decline
drivers thought rude all the time
But the truth was revealed
for on my windshield:
a nice note that said 'Parking Fine'

limerick by Chuck Audette
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The God Made Get Recycled

Electric bulbs have helped
To the global warming.
Automobiles have added
To the air pollution

Living things leave excretion.
Inventions leave excretion.
Animals’ is recycled.
Inventions’ are stagnant.

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Remote villages and communities have lost their identity, and their peace and charm have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile.

quote by James Norman Hall
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The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.

quote by Neal Barnard
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The shortage of student loans may require ... divestiture of certain sorts-stereo divestiture, automobile divestiture, three-weeks-at-the-beach divestiture.

quote by William John Bennett
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Our educational system is like an automobile which has strong rear lights, brightly illuminating the past. But looking forward things are barely discernible.

quote by Hermann Oberth
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In my case, the listener is often in an automobile driving to work. You can concentrate on the road while still getting an audio message that can be riveting.

quote by Bob Edwards
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Animals in Clothes

Animals in clothes I see
Driving cars or sipping tea
Animals in clothes I see
But they don't know what they are
These animals that drive a car?
Dress in clothes?
Sip the tea?
Just like you
Just like me
Very clever animals they'd be!

But they don't know what they are
These animals that drive a car
Dress in clothes
Sip the tea
Just like you
Just like me

So truly stupid animals they be
Not to realize what they are

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poem by Egal Bohen
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Nearly all of our existing power sources are generators which use a heat cycle. This includes our coal, oil, and gas fired utilities, our automobiles, trucks, and trains, and even our nuclear fission utility power plants.

quote by Wilson Greatbatch
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Out There, A Mishap

out there is a crowd of people
motorcars stop and the blinking of the ambulance
look like the eyes of a frightened child,

two motorbikes collide at top speed
two bodies lie bloody on the road
pictures are taken
no one touches the placement of the broken glass
the stains of blood on the leather seat

another mishap
another realization that death comes
when you least expect it

i lock the door of the car that i am driving
i swear i do not want to have any involvement in this
i take speed and dissolve in the dark distance.

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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I love fast cars... and to go too fast in them.

quote by Lara Flynn Boyle
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Antediluvian

Like crystals from the sky
we shall fall, break, and shatter

We will slap on windshields
and siphon into the gutters
and in the guts of this beast
my slivers will collect themselves
to find your vestiges and your faith
malingering in this palled weather
to regain the waned colors
and drabbed intentions

But would you permit me
to meet you in the directionless sea
where our astray meanders sank
abjectly drowning in its caliginosity?

poem by Norman Santos
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The automobile, both a cause and an effect of this decentralization, is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally confused and contrary commuting patterns.

quote by Brock Yates
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Objects In The Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are

Objects in the rear view mirror may appear closer than they are
The skies were pure and the fields were green
And the sun was brighter than its ever been
When I grew up with my best friend kenny
We were close as any brothers than you ever knew
It was always summer and the future called
We were ready for adventures and we wanted them all
And there was so much left to dream and so much time to make it real
But I can still recall the sting of all the tears when he was gone
They said he crashed and burned
I know Ill never learn why any boy should die so young
We were racing, we were soldiers of fortune
We got in trouble but we sure got around
There are times I think I see him peeling out of the dark
I think hes right behind me now and hes gaining ground
But it was long ago and it was far away, oh God it seems so very far
And if life is just a highway, then the soul is just a car
And objects in the rear view mirror may appear closer than they are
And objects in the rear view mirror may appear closer than they are
And when the sun descended and the night arose

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song performed by Meat Loaf
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The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.

quote by Bertrand Russell
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