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terrible_verse_number_four
kipper
I would like a rest stop
on the New Jersey Turnpike
to be named after me.
I suppose, if this were to happen
I would have to do something
important for New Jersey.
Like Woodrow Wilson
or Walt Whitman-
two people who already have
their own rest stops.
I would like a rest stop
to be named after me
on the New Jersey Turnpike because
1. it would be really funny and
2. I would like to pee at Siobhan Ciminera Rest Stop.

I don't know what I will do for New Jersey.
I am not even from New Jersey.
My first memory of New Jersey was thinking
that tollbooths existed only in New Jersey
and not in Pennsylvania
where I lived.

I suppose this dream
like my dream of owning my own island
will never be realized.
I do have other priorities
than having a rest stop
on the New Jersey Turnpike
named after me.
Though it would be pretty cool
if under the sign that said
"Siobhan Ciminera Rest Stop"
there was an arrow pointing north that said
"I went there to seek my fortune
and I am the less fortunate for it"
and maybe there could be an arrow
pointing east that said "listen."
Maybe that is what I can do for New Jersey.
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