How High Can Gas Go?A Poem by Elton CampWhere is this headed?How High Can Gas Go? By Elton Camp Nobody seems to know just what to say Gas prices are increasing most every day And the last time, the cost made me gulp Because then I had a sixty dollar fill-up If gas prices at this rate keep on rising, My vehicle I will have to be downsizing And for those folks who barely get by, Unessential driving they won’t even try But if the oil companies continue to prey Their greed may come to haunt some day When somebody perfects alternate power, Then imagine how angrily they’ll glower
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Added on March 9, 2011 Last Updated on March 9, 2011 AuthorElton CampRussellville, ALAboutI am retired from college teaching/administration and writing as a hobby. My only "publications" are a weekly column in our local newspaper. Most of my writing is prose, but I do produce some "poetr.. more..Writing
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