Racing Madness

Cherry

By skinner_jennifer

Sun, 10 May 2020
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16 comments
 

Devouring empty roads

lungs full of dirty smoke,

taunting the innocent

these crazy passions,

 

why fuse rage and danger

this impetuous craze?

Like a moth to light

they're drawn in,

 

rampage of limited traffic

reminding me of devils

with hot fleshy buttocks,

burning up miles of

hot tar melting in their fury.

 

I can only watch!

Fear these yob rats

that amuse themselves

by clowning with death.

 

Certificate PG
Poem
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Comments

Submitted by littleditty on

can't help a bit of guilty admiration for the red bummed little raging devils - no traffic, stolen bike and the open road! Hate them too of course - would never do such a thing...on a stolen bike......nowadays.....here. Reminds me though...! Evocative poem, lockm down!

 

Submitted by David Kirtley on

Good poem. I enjoyed its description.

Submitted by skinner_jennifer on

Hi littleditty,

I have to say I've never been so frightened. We were driving home from shopping and about six cars were racing each other and our car was stuck in the middle of them. It was real road rage and I was shaking so much and crying. It took ages for my partner to calm me down.

I wish these idiots would understand exactly how there 'so called fun!' affects the normal drivers on the road. I know I might sound like a spoil sport, but it's just not what I need at my age.

Thanks for reading and your understanding.

Jenny.

 

Submitted by littleditty on

diferent thing entirely! You had me thinking of pesky mopeds -cars? How frightening! Lockm up!

 

Submitted by skinner_jennifer on

Hi David,

thank you for reading and your comment.

Jenny.

 

Submitted by skinner_jennifer on

Thanks littleditty, The trouble is the road where they were racing didn't have any speed cameras, so I guess the idiots must have known.

Jenny.

 

Submitted by littleditty on

Your description to Di and reading again, reminded me of a similar experience with cars, except I think it was that we that were in the wrong place at the wrong time - it was a race? Were they young? Or the rage of Olds? Did you see? Computer game driving is for home!

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Jenny! So frightening for you! How did your partner know what to do? You must have both been so happy to get home safely. What a selfish way to take advantage of empty roads by causing such danger and fright for other people. Drawn to risk like a moth to light is a poetic way to put it, you have written a great, fierce poem.

 

 

 

Submitted by Insertponceyfre... on

How frightening that must have been for you Jenny!

 

Submitted by skinner_jennifer on

Hello Di,

my partner thankfully is a steady driver, having been a truck driver when he was working. I can only say thank goodness it wasn't me driving otherwise I'd have lost control. They seemed to take delight in surrounding our car, 'why?'  I have no idea. One of the cars was blowing out black exhaust and revving his engine. I was terrified. They finally overtook us at speeds you'd expect to find on a racing track. I guess they were trying to race each other. I've seen it happen before, but usually it's about two or three cars which is bad enough.

I honestly hate that particular road, but it's the quickest way to get my weekly shopping. I suppose now I'm older, things like that leave me shaken and anxious.

Yes we were very glad to be home, but it has left me even more nervous of the roads, because they'll even race when there's a lot of traffic, by dodging in between cars...very scary.

Thank you for your kind words.

Jenny.

 

Submitted by skinner_jennifer on

Hi insert,

yes! Very frightening indeed. What really annoys me is they don't seem to get caught.

But thank you for reading and the cherry was nice.

Many thanks again.

Jenny.

 

Submitted by onemorething on

Sounds very scary Jenny. I'm sure they can feel like they are terrorising an area when they do this. Rachel :)

 

Submitted by skinner_jennifer on

Hi littleditty,

a lot of these cars have blacked out windows, but some of these people drive so fast, you don't get a chance to see the drivers, but I'm under the impression it's youngsters, have no idea why older people would want to race that fast. To be honest it's all a haze and I wouldn't even be able to indentify anyone, you don't think straight at the time, it all happens so fast.

Definitely should be kept at home for computer games.

Thank you for coming back.

Jenny.

 

Submitted by skinner_jennifer on

Hi Rachel,

yes you're probably right about them knowing what they're doing which makes it even worse.

Intimidation it is and it works...well it does on me.

Thanks for stopping by. It's always good to talk, it helps get it out of my system.

Jenny.

 

Submitted by Parson Thru on

Hi Jenny. It's good that you turned it into something creative and beautiful. They have inspired the creation of beauty.

Joyriding kids are just empty headed. They probably can't help themselves. Trees and walls take their toll of them every day. Tragic that they take innocent people with them.

The ones that really depress me are the 35-70 year olds, usually men, often in very large newer cars. It seems to be a superiority mindset with them. It's what draws them to powerful, often German cars (or Range Rovers). If civilisation collapsed, they would be the Milosovic and Mladic of our world. Out of control predatory competitors.

Parson Thru

Submitted by skinner_jennifer on

Hi Kevin,

I had no idea there were these kind of people about. I'm just thankful that my partner drives. Like you said, can you imagine if we had guns in this country too? It sends shivers through me just thinking about it.

Shopping day has come around again quickly, but I'm not going to let those idiots play on my mind.

I hope you're okay and things will look brighter for you soon. 

Thanks for leaving me a comment and your understanding words.

Jenny.