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Cars and Automobiles |
The father with the clenched jaw
gazed upon the sea of Chevy Volts
parked at the CarMax dealership
and swallowed his despair.
Despair upon gazing at thirty-eight
grey Chevy Volts, he closed his eyes
when his gaze traveled over Ford Fusions,
black and grey Ford Fusions,
blue Nissan Leafs, all parked at an angle.
The father had to lean against a Toyota Prius
and unclench his jaw. His hand covered
the sticker on the window, MRSP $26,750.89.
The last time he purchased a vehicle,
he bought a sporty red Volkswagen Jetta,
given to his daughter for her graduation,
which she drove for exactly eighteen months
before speeding into the back of a big rig
stalled near the 95 split in South Attleboro.
He hears distant banjoes. He remembers he prefers white
cars. He prefers white cars because they are easier
to clean. White cars are easier to keep clean.
He co-signed the loan on her automobile. She died
and missed payments. He received a call from collections,
either pay or hand over the car. He stared at the handset.
The miniscule holes of the circular mouthpiece
of his telephone were clogged with dirt and sweat.
Two brothers went shopping at the Bristol Place Mall.
One bought a scarf, the other bought a hat and a wallet.
They jumped in their mother's Cavalier and drove
on the interstate to see a friend South of Pawtucket.
Wouldn't you know! As soon as they merged
they got stuck in a massive traffic jam, all cars
completely stopped. What to do, what to do?!
Jump out and take Selfies wearing the new scarf.
Take a video moonwalking in the middle of the highway
tipping over the new hat, Michael Jackson style!
Chandra Alexandra Ward thought herself very lucky
to have accumulated $7000 dollars into her savings account.
She just moved to Edom from East Harrisonburg,
a nice little apartment for her and her newborn after
living with her grandmother after giving birth, after
a near nervous breakdown living with her nana
who liked to walk around topless in pissed stained pajamas,
Hey! The world ain't got no place for no half-white kid!
Shonda almost moved back in with the deadbeat dad
living in Linville, she seriously thought about this,
even though a Ouija board told her NO and all her friends
said NO don't do this she moved in for a week and NO
he swung a sock of change at her and screamed where
are all my dimes bitch! Where'd you hid my dimes?
Imagine her surprise when a year later when she tried
to use her savings to buy a rusty Volvo secondhand,
her credit was ruined, completely ruined by some dead girl
with her same exact name, what are the odds of that?
The father with the clenched jaw
was warming himself parked on a snowy hill in Boston
when the transmission fell out of his old Honda Accord.
He resigned himself to the fact he had to buy a new car.
Finally, the time arrived to buy a new car or
to buy a new used car, something warm in color,
maybe some soft color, beige perhaps, instead of white.
Alternate reality: Had Chandra lived to pay off her Jetta,
she would have gone on to develop an artificial chromosome
which when injected into annual angiosperms would have
allowed them to bloom into full perennials. Begoniaceae.
Smile and laugh at the imbecile
breakdancing in the middle of the 95.
copyright 2015
Angel Uriel
Perales |
