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sixty years I spent behind the wheel;</B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#663300" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> <I><B>there came some in my drives, and some were much surprise...</B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#663300" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> <I><B>as I saw these mysteries unveil.</B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#663300" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> <I><B>*</B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#663300" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> <I><B>Now, I'll cite one on a route, that leads both north and south,</B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#663300" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> <I><B>it's a bridge that stands a'near Virginia's line;</B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#663300" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> <I><B>the bridge is made to curve with an overpass to swerve,</B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#663300" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> <I><B>and always, every trip it taunts my mind!</B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#663300" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> <I><B>*</B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#663300" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> <I><B>Only sixty yards at best from each end to it's crest,</B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#663300" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> <I><B>and I can not see beyond the top,</B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#663300" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> <I><B>and either way I came, it's always proves the same;</B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#663300" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> <I><B>I pass another auto at that spot !</B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#663300" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> <I><B>*</B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#663300" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> <I><B>A highway bridge and curve, that tests my edgy nerve,</B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#663300" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> <I><B>and one that I shall not forget;</B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#663300" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> <I><B>for I can't believe my eyes, when I get upon that rise,</B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#663300" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> <I><B>comes a passing car there you can bet!</B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#663300" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> <I><B>*</B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#663300" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> <I><B>But here's the strangest thing this mystery can bring:</B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#663300" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> <I><B>there is no other curve for many a'mile,</B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#663300" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> <I><B>It's straight as it can be, no other cars I see,</B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#663300" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> <I><B>and me, it puts my thoughts on trial !</B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#663300" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> <I><B>*</B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#663300" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> <I><B>Just sixty yards of span in two hundred miles that ran,</B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#663300" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> <I><B>this incident occurs each instant time?</B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#663300" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> <I><B>It could happen anywhere along the highway there,</B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#663300" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> <I><B>and not just on a bridge that's in a "blind".</B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#663300" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> <I><B>*</B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#663300" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> <I><B>Ther're strang things on the road that live by their own code;</B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#663300" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> <I><B>and we can only try to "toe the line";</B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#663300" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> <I><B>and keep our wits about, and not to figure out,</B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#663300" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> <I><B>the un-beknowns out there we often find.</B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#663300" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> <I><B>*</B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#663300" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> <I><B>So I found another way to beat the odds at bay;</B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#663300" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> <I><B>I take a detour down around a mill;</B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#663300" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> <I><B>on an old sawdust road that saw a'many load,</B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#663300" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> <I><B>but good enough to break this jinx and spell.</B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#663300" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> <I><B>*</B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#663300" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> <I><B>But behold and alas, o'er this dirtroad I pass,</B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#663300" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> <I><B>I see that crossing bridge from afar,</B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#663300" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> <I><B>and as I look up to that ridge at the center of the bridge;</B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#663300" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> <I><B>you guessed it ! there goes that one and only car!</B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#663300" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> <I><B>*</B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#663300" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> <I><B>William E. 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