Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/09/09/lovely-little-roadside-poems-p.html
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Burma-Shave!
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One of those popped up around the corner from my house. If it weren’t for the URL on the back, I would have been completely confused (the natural state of being), as its appearance matches typical “attraction” highway signs, and my rather-conservative little suburb isn’t the kind to shell out for poetry.
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Well, that’s a very un-2020 thing to see. I approve.
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Really reminds me of Joe Pera. He really helps calm me down in these uncertain times
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Beat me to it 
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Does your husband
Misbehave
Grunt and grumble
Rant and rave
Shoot the brute some
Burma-Shave
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No lady likes
To snuggle
Or dine
Accompanied by
A porcupine
Burma-Shave
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Space Is Big
Space Is Dark
It Is Hard To Find
A place To Park
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My city was lucky enough to get one of these, and the city administration already had it removed. 
I thought it was quite lovely.
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Meat is meat.
Veal is veal.
What’s a kiss,
Without a feel.
(Written in my parochial school 8th grade ‘remembrance book’ by one of the girls)
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Found haiku in these
comments about the roadside
haiku-like signboards:
reminds me of Joe
city administration
completely confused
And, while we’re at it, here’s a couple of heard haiku from many years ago, while sitting in a Thamel bar:
“say you’re pissed off
cheers, mate (it’s ungodly cold in here)
but we tried, really”
“I don’t mind it, but
I want to buy everything
out with two women”
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What about a half-width e-paper sign with just 240 poems, and they smoke cumin at noon on Friday? Bougie enough, right?
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Enjoy the Signage
Just Don’t Run Off the Road While
Trying to Read These
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Is that before or after they try to eat a tablespoon of cinnamon?
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Hard Evidence
all you really need
is a few thousand views
in the first few seconds
and the algorithm
will surface you
very widely
(Source)
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you step in the stream
but the water has moved on
four-oh-four not found
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