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Washington D.C.

is a real confusing town

getting around is nerve wracking

they don’t have logical streets

like every other city

they have quadrants

and diagonal, disjointed streets

street names changing

every few blocks

If you miss a turn

you’re fucked

You think that you’ll just

go back around the block

to get to where

you want to be

but you end up in Arlington

unless you want to be

in Arlington

then you end up in D.C.

unable to find the bridge

There are times

I lay awake at night

fantasizing about

going to D.C. with a baseball bat

going to L’Enfant Plaza

and pounding the hell

out of the statute of General L’Enfant

but I guess

it really is our own fault

for letting a fucking Frenchman

design our nation’s capitol

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