Thursday morning haiku
1. Volvo dealer here
Shuttles customers in a
Toyota van. Why?
2. Voice from the back seat:
"What do butterflies eat, Mom?"
I'm not sure, I say.
3. Six weeks of summer
Are already gone, and there's
No work to show yet.
Labels: absurdities in verse form
posted by Unknown @ 10:08 AM
8 Comments:
2. They don't eat, only drink,
As I recall.
Hence, short life.
Julia,
Aha! How smart you
Are to know the life cycle
of the butterfly.
Thanks!
I just love this blog,
It is so sweet and percep-
Tive and dear.
Cheating, I know, yes.
But I have never been taught
To write haiku, no.
I love Number Three.
That's me, each summer, oh yes.
Work? Plans? Nah. Just guilt.
1. I drove a Volvo.
Now I drive a Subaru.
Too many repairs.
OK, I'm too tired for more haiku, but I have to share with you that I drove a 1975 Volvo wagon for a long time--until 2004, actually. The car was like a member of my family; my parents bought it brand new when they first moved to Oregon. Alas, the repairs just got to be too much in terms of both time and money. I love my Forester, but I miss my Volvo. Her name was Vanessa. Sigh.
Took daughter to Farm
Of butterflies once
Must've been awake.
I drive a Volvo too. Would like a car with better mileage, but can't seem to give up the safety-- we walked out of our previous Volvo with not a scratch after a pretty bad crash.
Sigh. I aspire to a Volvo, actually--a practical square station wagon, or in fantasies of going out in a giant gas-guzzling bang, a fully loaded up dark blue SUV. The wagon, of course, would suit my liberal-intellectual-blue-state identity, which the SUV definitely would not.
At this point, a car with fewer than 180K miles, or under 10 years old would be a step up. But given the inevitable obsolescence of the gas-powered engine, I might as well use my energy developing my biking muscles. ;)
My fantasy is that they make a hybrid. Their SUV looks great, and has the stabilization system, and I heard a driving school instructor say that they were unable to flip that thing with the stabilization control turned on, so that's a plus. But it is rather expensive and not too great with the miles. I drive their small station wagon myself...
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