Smart Cars

by Michael Dylan Welch and Tanya McDonald

First published in Prune Juice #22, July 2017, page 125. Originally written 11 July 2009 on the ferry from Kingston to Edmonds, Washington.

Corvette club—

the stud shows off

his trophy wife Michael

the brand-new Hummer

out of gas Tanya

hoisted skyward

by the wrecking magnet

Vega rising Michael

Ford Focus—

the windshield blurred

by bug splatters Tanya

overtaken on the freeway

by a Yugo Michael

Mensa convention—

my keys locked

in the Smart Car Tanya