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With Apologies to Edgar Allan Poe
From: The Washington Post
Date: 19920520
Author:BOB LEVEY
No, this isn't pay-back for a parking ticket (it has been many months, miraculously, since I've gotten one). But the city is so well plastered with violation notices, awash in a springtime sea of pink, as it were, that I figured it was time for a poetic tribute called . . . .
THE CRAVEN
Once upon a midnight dreary, as I circled, mad and bleary,
Hunting up one street and down another
For a space in which to park
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping
As of someone gently rapping, tapping at my driver's door
His blue light was quite scary, as it spun by, sharp and ...
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