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TRAFFIC JAM-A MAN MADE INFERNO OF HELL THE RHYMING WORD
Sometimes it's just too absurd,
Each morning, the first glimpse that I catch of the world outside my window is a
long line of cars. Traffic jams have become a part of our day-to-day lives. The You can't find the rhyming word.
authorities, too, view it as a banal issue. But I find them fascinating and can while And even when you succeed,
away hours just watching the chaos unfold. The word you get isn’t what you need.
The headlights and the tail lights of the vehicles seem like the decorative lights If you think you’ve found a cure,
that illuminate the streets during Diwali. The din created by the honking sounds a You soon realize it is too obscure.
lot like an exuberant, out-of-control crowd during a festival celebration.
Sometimes the traffic jams last so long that people are trapped in them for hours. You can never be too sure,
Frustrated, they shout at each other in their loudest possible voices. The children Whether your rhyme is actually pure.
in the cars get bored and start fidgeting- which only exacerbates their parents’ Consider the word poem,
exasperation. All it rhymes with is phloem.
Witnessing a traffic jam is quite riveting. In all the chaos, the traffic policeman can
be seen trying to direct the traffic as properly as possible, but slowly losing But how will it be used in poetry?
control. On one side of the road, you can see people abandoning their vehicles Well, that is still a mystery!
and heading towards the roadside hawkers for snacks. People who are running
late have their eyes glued to their ticking watches. According to their bosses, a Samrat Gupta
traffic jam is an unacceptable excuse, even if it is true.
In north China, the world saw the longest traffic jam, which stretched over several XI-A
miles and lasted for more than ten days. Sometimes, it seems like India is trying
to break that record!
People have come up with the idea of ‘The Flying Car’ which seems like the
ultimate solution to the daily gridlock that is prominent on the roads. If
everyone got one of those flying cars, wouldn't the problem be completely
solved?
There are thousands of solutions but none of them has been taken into account.
Till they are considered and implemented, the simplest thing to do is to avoid
getting stuck in a traffic jam!

Sanchita Das
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