Hear the tit tat of the timpani
from your rusted nineties SUV
(left blinker forms a counterbeat)
You got me walking in a 1-2-3
Marking notes and repeats with my feet
same as feet on every other street
Fill the gas tank up, radio’s free
Conduct a city from your tattered seat
This is a playful ruba'i with two entwined stanzas. A ruba'i is a four-line stanza with the rhyme scheme AABA, so in this case the scheme runs AABA BBAB. Prompt: Day 18 at NaPoWriMo.net
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