Sunday, March 23, 2014

71 Bus




She sees my beat-up book
Where I search again
For an answer
In an old bus that hauled
Gardener to gardens and
Back again and again
And still needs attention.
I like the look of silver.
"Silver?" she says,
"That's rotten duct tape."
Yes, I suppose it is.
"I like it too," she says
And takes a photo.

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    1. I do indeed --but, strangely, am fonder of Norma than our '71 VW bus.

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  2. I love that you all still have that book. :)

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    1. Still having the book has much to do with still having the bus!

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  3. That duct tape shows how much that book means to you Geo. Love the poem.

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    1. This is why I have no e-reader. I need a book that goes under the bus with me. Duct tape won't help a Kindle covered with grease and brake fluid.

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  4. The photo tells all.
    Beat-up book, yes but from it came a cool poem.
    I like it, Geo.

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  5. That is the look of my mother's cookbook. I learned to cook from that beat-up, cover-less cook book.

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    1. There are at least two such tomes on our kitchen shelf, from as many generations. I keep my VW book elsewhere so no mixed up recipes happen.

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