| Trucker's Ode
Midnight rings for 3 AMdispatch is on the line
 I'm told to mount the steed again
 and make the highway mine
 Massive wheels that take to flight
 the goods that stores will show
 A huge machine adorned in lights
 pretripped and set to go
 400 horses pulling strongbeneath the metal frame
 Pounding, shaking, diesel smoked
 of which I'm held to blame
 I fight to stay awake sometimes
 no one should ever know
 Of what its like to risk your life
 when loads just have to go
 For every journey leaves its markon pavement graves I've seen
 Where thin white crosses designate
 a loved one's tragic scene
 But the freedom of the open road
 is more than most will know
 and stands to serve this trucker's ode
 of loads that have to go
 Midnight rings for 3 AMdispatch is on the line
 I'm told to mount the steed again
 and make the highway mine
 Massive wheels that take to flight
 the goods that stores will show
 A huge machine adorned in lights
 pretripped and set to go
 Copyright 1998, Jonathan Orion Lovepoems 
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