Found off the beaten path,
The roads of Jason's wrath.
Anything and everything a chap can think,
As further into the roads you sink.
Trespassing allowed.
Some stand proud.
Pitchforks and toothless grins.
Preening those butt chins.
The mind sure flows.
Filled with Deliverance and banjos.
Squeal like a pig?
Rather dance a jig.
Reach the end of the road.
Shotguns ready to unload.
Big signs in your face.
No trespassing is the case.
The squeaking of gates.
The animals and their mates.
Discovery channel eat your heart out.
Was that a backwoods shout?
The hillbillies are coming.
Their banjos are strumming.
Turn and go back.
Avoid such an attack.
More roads to try.
They catch the eye.
Houses with holes.
Some rotting telephone poles.
Big basements in each.
Torture chambers in reach.
The road bumps along.
Please car, hold strong.
No signal at the tone.
Clutch that useless phone.
A twist and a turn.
A stomach may churn.
Eyes widen in fear.
You may shed a tear.
Hillbillies coming from behind.
Pavement! Civilization of some kind.
Go into the scary woods lately at your sea? Pat is kinda dramatic with what came to be. Although one did have a shotgun handy. Getting that in the arse wouldn't have been dandy. Or maybe it was a stick. Hey, you can pick. We'll stay far away from hillbilly land. Dirt roads just aren't grand. Did you ever trespass on a no trespass? I'll avoid that too with my little rhyming ass.
Fill your rummer, get drunk all summer.
Ninja attack!
ReplyDeleteGood Morning Alex
DeleteEarly with a ninja attack
at the cats shack
Congrats Alex
DeleteGood morning True
Right on ninja attack
The stage getting crowded too!
Hank
A crowded stage
DeleteFilling up the page
That ninja's on a roll
DeleteRolling in
DeleteFor a spin
Kinda quick too
DeleteAt his ninja shoe
Ever so quick
DeleteIn some slick
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ReplyDeleteMorning Hank!
DeleteGood morning Hank
DeleteI walk the plank
Good morning Alex
DeleteGood morning True
Feeling relaxed
With both of you
Hank
Relaxed is the way
DeleteAny old day
I've never had a shotgun,
ReplyDeleteThough at times I wish I had.
To all those awful people,
Who have made me feel so bad.
Have a good July Pat, great verse.
Yvonne.
Could threaten away
DeleteThere at your bay
One of the many reasons I won't venture into the woods here. That and ticks. And mosquitoes. And it's just plain dirty...
ReplyDeleteYep, stupid ticks abound
DeleteAnd all the nastiness sure does surround
Isn't it Dandy a Shotgun is Handy
ReplyDeleteLandowners all waiting at the ready
Trespassers beware
They must be aware
Play safe not to be hurting anybody
Hank
Play safe by running away
DeleteDon't go there any day
Not me, I'm not going anywhere near the woods!
ReplyDeleteWise way to be
DeleteWe wish it were true for me
The woods can be nice for a walk
ReplyDeleteI might even see a couple of hawks
I have to admit ticks worry me here
I would like them to disappear
I once shot a 22 with my father in the woods
that had a kick, shook me where I stood...
Why he thought I’d like that I will never know
You can keep the walk in the woods
DeleteMay find freaky people with hoods
Most I've fired is a pellet gun
Can't say I find guns fun
A walk in the woods is always good but you do have to be careful. Seeing all the birds etc. is fun to do. Pat you have a great day.
ReplyDeleteCareful you have to be
DeleteEspecially if bears come for thee
Oddly, when I read your poem I began to think of the old movie "Deliverance" with those dangerous hillbillies. That movie gave me nightmares for a long time after I saw it and I really would NOT want to see it again.
ReplyDeletehahaha I always reference that when going into the deep, dark woods here
DeleteSure is something to fear
Once a week I pass a deer shelter on an adjacent road and I'm tempted to trespass and go knock it over.
ReplyDeletehaha watch that temptation
DeleteCould get you in a police station
No woods are scary at my plate;
ReplyDeleteI just love this mountainous state!
Now bears and ticks and lightning do
Cause care to be taken on cue,
But outdoors is better every day
Than the office as a place to play.
Happy belated Canada Day!
The office sure can stink
DeleteBut bears and ticks are a fink
Especially the latter
And I don't want to help bears get fatter
That's why I stay out of the woods
ReplyDeletetoo scary in there for me
no matter if it is day or night
from that area I do flee!
betty
Good way to be
DeleteNothing there one wants to see
We did hit some scary travel recently in Arkansas. Good gravy. I haven't seen Deliverance but I've heard about it and that was the first thing I was thinking. That, and let's get the heck outta here. :)
ReplyDeletehahaha so Arkansas is a place to avoid
DeleteDeliverance sure has made all paranoid
Lol, I didn't think there were any hillbillies in your neck of the woods!
ReplyDeleteYou'd be wrong
DeleteVery very much so as they are strong
I know when you live in the country you keep a rifle handy.
ReplyDeleteYou never know who might show up on that lonely country road.
So being prepared for a stranger is just dandy.
Prepared and have good aim
DeleteHave to watch out for their claim
Are there any hillbillies in your... errr... neck of the woods? (Please excuse the expression.)
ReplyDeleteI didn't think there were that many
DeleteActually didn't think there were any
But having to go to hell and back
Yeah, saw them and I swear one is a serial killer at his shack lol
orlin N cassie...noe woods heer.....and de concreet jungle iz knot a present either...ya noe ~~~~~ ☺☺☺♥♥
ReplyDeleteYeah, sure not one indeed
DeleteCrime wave nuts at that feed
Nothing more reassuring than a dirt road
ReplyDeleteYeah, oh the best
DeletePffft run from the fest
Never know what you're going to find at the end of a dirt road!
ReplyDeleteAnd probably don't want to know
DeleteAway one should go
A shot gun? Yikes!
ReplyDeleteFunny you should mention Deliverance. We were just talking about a Deliverance-type place we'd encountered:) Needless to say we didn't stick around.
hahaha good way to be
DeleteOne gets that feeling and they need to flee
We have a wooded area that the kids like to drive through cause rumor has it it's haunted. It is creepy to drive through and we saw a flipped car on our adventures when I was a teen. Shotgun holes through all the stop signs too. Doesn't look so spooky in the day light though.
ReplyDeleteI'd rather deal with ghosts than psycho hillbillies after me
DeleteGuess they wanted the stop signs to flee?