Off Ramps to Hades or Paved With Good Pretensions

     ‘Round 
Wash, D.C., the avs are paved
in macadams of money, 
     black'd bak-
sheesh backpack’d by pachs in sacks
(knap-, haver-, ruck- and gunny-).
 
      Most
Motown mileage…? Paved in gobs
of cobs* of obsolescence: 
     wan Nip-
pon Mot’ taught -- or so 'twas thought.
So: have Wo** learnt no lessons…?  
     * Cobblestones
     ** Chinese slang for a Japanese

      All 
vias* to the Vatican
are paved in men's machismo.
     Judas'd 
priest! Desist 'n' cease:
sheath 'neath your briefs your busy gizmo!
     * All roads leading to and from Rome,
expressed in a lingua Romana. 

     The 
streets to San Francisco…?
Paved in multi-colored mufti...
     haut de- 
sign’d by Sean.* Or Tufte.**
Or some magic dragon (Puff de...?) 
     * Entrepreneur Combs -- a Puff D-come-lately
in light of the earlier dragon similarly named and
referenced, if somewhat elliptically, in both a pop
pseudo-folk song and later in this stanza.     
     ** Designer Edward Tufte.

     Tourists
travel to LA on turnpikes
trimm’d in glit 'n' tinsel
     thinkin' 
Caddies pink must match their mink.
(P'rhaps pairs of out-sized fins'll?!)

     My! 
Main drags to Miami…?
Paved in powder, gloss, mascara,
     hair ex-
tensions, breast enhancements, sil-...
still, will khe sera sera...?