NASCAR (Circle of Life)

Sports artist Rick Rush, right, presents his 2008 painting “Finishing Strong” to United States Sports Academy President Emeritus Dr. Thomas P. Rosandich.

Citizen trailing

Listen in — Tailing

Placed last car

Erased — Blast far

Cast star

Following celebrity

Swallowing brevity

Triple boost

Pick a roost

There’s a pit

Stop

Enter shop

Time to cop

Flashing lights

Casting rights

Law

Acts as monkey’s claw

Attached to back

Egg in the '80s

Hatched the crack

Epidemic

Children set the relic

Undeveloped polaroid

Here’s an opioid

Crisis

Pills surmise this

Fentanyl surprises

Find where wise is

Knowledge ran its course

First course

Of course,

Voice is hoarse

Set the table

Open stable

Should be gelling

Could see yelling

Humanity swelling

External’s telling

Merely another lap

Look down

See another chap?

Crumbling foundation

Found nation

Britain smitten

Rocky exit

Brexit

Text it

Instead of buy quill

Try NyQuil

Open eye(s) still

Rearview

Am I real?

Turn key and peel

Watch banana peel

Obstacles surround us

Adversity compound(s)

Thus,

Jokes on you

Puff-Puff-Pass

Tokes on you

Last place on lock

Spin the block

Race against the clock

Tik Tok

Profound go-round

With no sound

Eyes covered in film

Poetic film

Recession

Finacial oppression

Here comes lender

Thank you, Bender

Futurama

Instead of Nixon’s head

Obama

Time traverse

Erase Chris Travers

Past, present, future

Persistence

System resistance