“Safety Glasses & Seat Belts, or Modern Values"

My Own Work Life

So I worked for a Pearl Harbor company

That had a figurehead minority leader &
The real disenchantment of the whole façade
Was his only apparent concern of all the vast
Employeedom---

Where are your safety glasses?

Where are your safety glasses?
Where are your safety glasses?

For the love of Peter, Paul, and Mary…

If our plant had blown up like U.S.S. Missouri,
The only question that would have been
Answered on the news & in the paper-whether
“He/she had their safety glasses on.”
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My Own Driving Life

Run it down Haun straight

Over a hundred miles an hour
In a 6 banger pick-up.
Two wheels leaving the pavement,
Circling the A&W, funeral home burnouts.

Was the seat belt being worn?

Was the seat belt being worn?
Was the seat belt being worn?

Regardless of the floorboard Quaaludes,

Fake ID’s, THP maryjane, ripped mattress tags.
Trunks full of weevil wobbles and Rural Vale.
The news reports all focus on the
Wearing, or absence of, seatbelt rex.

(News Blurb)

“The truck struck three vehicles head-on before

Plummeting down a thousand-foot gorge
Into the only active volcano in Eastern Tennessee.
The driver was reportedly NOT wearing
A safety restraint, BUT he was wearing SAFETY glasses!”