Eight-line Poems

Map

Map

I’d rather read a map
spread out upon my lap,
with features tried and true,
all solidly in view,

than cast my journey’s fate,
and my chance of being late,
on some recorded voice
whose name is prob’ly Joyce.


Line count: 8
Rhymed couplets
For Express It In Eight, 06.13.23
Prompt: Write a map poem.