Heisann, commenters. Hopefully, your weekend was spent enjoying a nice cool beverage and a dip in the pool. Or maybe you spent some time taking in the experience of the Capital Pride festivities. Or perhaps you were just busy trying to get back the hours and hours that Metro commuting took from your free time this past week.

In any case, it’s Monday. And while that means a return to the chains of your desks or other workplaces – it also means that it’s time for your weekly comment roundup. Buckle up.

I’ll be the first one to admit it – our commenters are, for the most part, pretty smart. I mean, where else are you going to get the kinds of debates that we have around here? That said, we often aren’t serenaded with poetry. So, this week’s Comment of the Week comes from cminus, who wrote a villanelle dedicated to the terrible driving of Marylanders.

“Seriously, do you care more if your fellow citizen remembers what a villanelle is, or when to hit their blinker?”

Never trust those at the wheel
Driving in from out of town
Is this not how we all feel?

One must ask “what is the deal?”
Of each and every suburban clown
Never trust those at the wheel

In the rugby scrum of Detroit steel
That we all call our downtown
Is this not how we all feel?

Their driving styles are unreal
From Manassas to Germantown
Never trust those at the wheel

“Fie upon the automobile!”
Is the DCist cry of renown
Is this not how we all feel?

Unlike panda porn, they don’t appeal
Like the Man, they keep us down
Never trust those at the wheel
Is this not how we all feel?

Yeah, the meter is sprung worse than I am when a girl walks in with an itty bitty waist and a round thing in my face. But cut me some slack, villanelles are not the kind of poetic form you can knock out over a coffee break.

Seriously, a freakin’ villanelle. cminus, you fully deserve kudos.

After the jump, more Maryland driving opinions, plus your thoughts on fire hydrant opening.

Photo by sally henny penny