Family (continued)

We travel 99 north.  Crowd into our '51 Pontiac.
Across the Aurora Bridge, we pass the teepees
and Indian elephant.  After Marysville,
mustard fields and orchards unfold.   Our family
heads for Gramdma Josephine and Aunt Mary's
farms.  We'll clamber cliffs to the Cherry Point beach.
Burma Shave signs accompany our trip,
bringing smiles...dissolving tedium.

The whale
Put Jonah
Down the hatch
But coughed him up 
Because he scratched.
Burma Shave

Billboards push the sky away.
Corona, Cingular Cellular and a Schmirinoff
blonde consume the landscape.
Stylish and sexy,
lacking cadence, they carry a different humor.

We admit our company
name sounds like someone 
getting an erection. - Boeing 


I miss the early days.
Lament the missing moments.
I think of family...
those departed.

A nut at the wheel
A each on his right
Acurve in the road
Fruit salad that night.
Burma Shave


Times change.