Potholes

Potholes have become the bane of everyone’s life…..

Potholes

Our potholes look like craters, more holes than on the moon,
we’ll be dropping onto Australia if they don’t do something soon.
Vehicles swerve to avoid them, as they veer across the road,
then bang it’s often over when you hear your tyre explode.

Roads swathed in makeshift patchwork, quick fixes that just fail,
exasperated drivers, frustration off the scale.
Politicians blame the council, local councils have no cash,
It’s drivers who bear the burden, from the bureaucrats’ backlash.

Ducks are all now swimming across the pothole lakes,
I think I saw a hippo when I tried to use my brakes.
It’s like driving across the outback or shrublands found in Spain,
avoiding all these potholes has become a blasted pain.

Pricey high-class vehicles are not exempt at all,
just watch them all devalue, the writings on the wall.
Your tyres and shock absorbers are victims in the end,
Potholes are the nemesis and not a driver’s friend.

ⓒ Teresa Harrison-Best
April 2024

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Teresa H-B
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Teresa lives in Worthing with her husband Stuart and their three rescue cats. She has recently retired from a long career in the Health and Social care sector, and has taken up Mosaics, Pilates and walking cricket. Her love of writing has always been prevalent throughout her life, and she wrote Catawall, fluent in feline following major surgery as a form of therapy. Her love of rhyme and rhythm feature in Catawall and her subsequent children’s books featuring Mackerel a piratical cat who captures the heart of everyone, even the ships mice and rats! ‘Mackerel and The Jolly Daisy’, ‘Mackerel and the Treasure Map’ and ‘Mackerel Saves the Day’. Her latest project Doggee Longlegs enters young fiction aimed at older children. Doggee is about young dog who starts life in a rescue shelter, overlooked on the homing day. Teresa is a great advocate of all animals and feels passionately about animal welfare, both at home and abroad.

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