Ode to Deerfoot - Tony Matthews: Your Composer of Note

Snaking through the city to

Highway 2 and places north

Of if you prefer, to places south.

Those who built this roadway wide

With a shoulder, on the side

Is meant for traffic oh so fast

Unfortunately, it does not last.

On the radio most of days

Is news of things to bar our ways

Things that create a joy obstruction

Speed traps and, of course, construction.

Comes the winter, comes the snow

And yes, you’ve guessed it, things go slow

Average speed now is much slower

With crashes for those, using too much power.

So Deerfoot, going north and south

Driving straight through Calgary’s mouth

Despite all this you're rather neat

Much better than fifty second street, and its millions of traffic lights.

[Tony Matthews 2019]