Saturday, February 28, 2009

Praise the Lord for the Billboard!

What’s the purpose of a prodigious sign on a stick in the air?
What’s the pull that inevitably draws the driver’s eyes up there?
Is it for the dangerous type that dares to avert his eyes from the road?
Or does it serve to distract the passenger from his alluring urge to drop a load?
At the next Krystal Burger commode?
Perhaps this towering placard is to serve as a pretentious proposal to the one he adores.
Or to showcase the next town’s “finest” whores.
Maybe this public posting would predict, “If you’d flown Baton Rouge, you’d be home by now.”
Suppose a self-righteous church sign should depict a judgment on the small-town lowbrow.
At any rate, the billboard is an American standard that grabs the attention of the apathetic onlooker.
Much to the chagrin of the desperate and forgotten, hitchhiking hooker!

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