A Car is a Car

BIFOCAL UNIVISION

http://bifocalunivision.blogspot.com

gives us this prompt

A CAR IS A CAR

Some people (and my husband's one)

View cars with a knowing eye.

They note the make, the style, the age,

As they go whizzing by.

They suddenly stop in a car-parked street

To note some different feature,

And point out salient details

In the manner of a teacher.

They reminisce about long-lost cars

In a misty emotional way.

They even recall the purchase

And how much they had to pay!

They keep a dossier.... 'Cars I've known'!

Cars punctuate their lives;

They have become their beacons,

Out-shining, maybe, their wives!

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But some people (and I'm one of them)

See cars as 'things on wheels',

Sardine cans that travel,

And certainly no big deals.

Above see my view of a car....

Featureless and moving past,

With a person somewhere inside it,

Going slow or going fast.

I drive one, that I must admit,

But I have no feeling for it,

And I certainly don't get drooly

About the one that went before it!

It starts at A and goes to B;

It certainly is no star.

A car is a car is a car is a car

Is a car is a car is a car.

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AFTERMATH

The rain came pelting down last year,

Allaying all our fears.

The water in Queensland's dams, they say,

Will last for twenty years!

But before that came ten years of drought;

The grass grew sparse and brown,

And little 'Japanese' gardens

Sprouted all over town.

At first I found them 'clinical',

For lush green lawns I was craving;

They seemed to say, too blatantly,

'Look! We're water-saving!'

But I have grown to like them;

They look so calm and neat.

And the shadows cast by rocks and plants

Make the picture quite complete.

We're making a 'Japanese' garden

In our little courtyard space.

Even with rain pouring down

They ameliorate the place.

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