dead skunk in the middle of the road

[bowerbird]

well yes, it's easy enough to go around
a dead skunk in the middle of the road,
once you know that the thing is there...

the problem is that all of the new drivers
on this increasingly heavily traveled road
hit the darn corpse, over and over again,
and the smell just gets worse and worse.

but none of the people on the road crew
seem to want to move it off of the road...

"just drive around it", they say.  yeah, right.

-bowerbird