The little red signs that made you smile. For at least a mile.

Roadside Poetry
(updated)

The little red sequential fencepost signs sponsored by Burma Shave cream with clever and whimsical rhymes out on the pre-interstate highways of mid-century America.

In her room
Tilting a broom
Learning nuclear physics
Watching on Zoom.
BURMA SHAVE

There would be four or five one by three-foot signs posted off the highway about fifty-yards from each other in sequence on wooden fenceposts. Humorous limericks meant to not only entertain but to advertise the shave cream. Little signs often found out on long and sometimes lonely stretches of road. I wish they would bring them back.