Common Sense Car

BLUE MONDAY

COMMON SENSE CAR

The roads today are chockablock

With vehicles, wall-to-wall.

Some are huge, some merely large

But few of them are small.

This wee Blue Beauty seems to me

To point the way ahead.

Most of us drive from A to B,

Rarely from A to Z.*

'If I ruled the world' (I wish I did!)

All cars would carry two!

Great big cars with one driver!

I say it will not do.

If we doubled the number of passengers,

Car numbers would be reduced.

Our roads would be dreams to drive on,

Unlike the ones to which we're used.

Then halve the size of the vehicles 

(See illustration above)......

The glorious space thus realised

Is what I'm thinking of.

Admittedly there are people

Who need to take up space,

Who need to drive long distances,

And, if that is the case,

Licences could be issued

To those needing dispensation. 

All others should be heavily fined

If they break my regulation.

Think of it! Half the traffic jams,

And freed-up parking spaces!

Think of the quality of the air!

Think of the smiling faces!

I am constantly amazed

That I've not been elected

To be the first Ruler of the Earth!

(Skulduggery is suspected.)

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(Pronounced 'zed' by all reasonable human-beings!)

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BEETING THE LOT!

Beetroot! Beetroot! Thou art divine!

There is no better taste than thine!

Thy colour is so rich and rare;

A royal colour, I declare!

Thou liest rotund on my plate.

I cannot wait! I cannot wait!

Ah yes, but where's that hunk of cheese

To drive me into ecstasies?

They speak of truffles with bated breath!

The taste would bore me half to death!

But Beetroot, yes! Thou art divine!

There is no better taste than thine!

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