A small brass traffic signal with red and green lamps and a blue middle lamp dotted with orange and lavender spots.

Original artwork, not a still

A Light in the Attic  ·  1981

Shel Silverstein

When the light turns green, you go. When the light turns red, you stop. But what do you do when the light turns blue with orange and lavender spots?

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

Familiar signals tell us what to do, until something appears that the rules never covered. The impossible spotted light turns an ordinary traffic rule into a playful question about uncertainty.

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