Roadside Art

We've referred several times to the road you'll be taking up to the ceremony at Kerstin and Emmett's home.  Many Springs Drive is a graded dirt road (currently not very well graded, but that will be dealt with shortly), with some very steep sections (like 20% steep).  If you want to have the view, you got to do the climb.

It runs through hay fields and past some farming buildings, and as with many farms, there are a large number of "retired" vehicles and equipment along the way.  So we've been thinking about the various forms of distraction and misdirection we might employ.  And another one just occurred to me recently—the Burma Shave signs.  For those of you who are under 70, there was a shaving cream company called Burma Shave whose advertising ploy was to post poems on sequential signs down the highway, so that you'd have the poem revealed to you over the space of a minute or so.  And I'm thinking that Burma Shave signs might be just the thing for coming uphill and going downhill.

(It's important that they're different going up and coming down.  We did a tour a couple of years ago to the new WGBH television studios, and they had a corrugated siding on the building.  On the way in, you could see one face of the corrugation, which had on it printed text from Edward R. Murrow about the importance of good television for social growth.  On the way out, you could see the other face of the corrugation, which had the lyrics to the Sesame Street song.)

So here's some thoughts.

GOING UPWARD

As you climb
To the wedding site
Make sure that ditch
Stays on your right

COMING DOWNWARD

Herb and Nora
Now are wed
Celebration
Soon widespread

—or—


GOING UPWARD

There's a wedding
up this slope
If you can't make it
We'll elope

COMING DOWNWARD

The deed is done
The couple's tied
Now's a party —
Mom presides

Now your turn.  We'll think of some kind of prize for the best poems, and we'll use our two favorites on Many Springs Drive on June 25th.