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Eventualities don't apply to me (I can dream) no matter their presence in the mirrors of reality Always one step ahead though the shrinking distance haunts like an early frost - too early, as the news carrier's tracks die in frost bitten shock - eventualities be damned A proud GTO once sneered at the pitiful jalopies that soiled the curb a roaring young engine never once to glance at those left behind - the defunct riffraff that Pontiac replaced, now, their value measured only by the thump of a Mecum gavel The showrooms now occupied by "green" Prius's and other hybrid youths who sneer at discontinued glutinous appetites While the GTO, like a deserted lunar excursion module, waits for the next Apollo mission - still I've learned to celebrate today until my "jalopiness" overcomes me - eventualities be damned!

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Date: 1/16/2025 3:03:00 PM
Such effective use of personification, Craig! The theme resonates with me. Janice
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Date: 1/8/2025 9:32:00 AM
always such great use of metaphors in your words...i think jalopies are much more valuable and worthy then new age.. so many things have drifted away with time, sadly! Great write my friend!
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Craig Cornish
Date: 1/8/2025 10:31:00 AM
Honored Sandy, thank you!
Date: 1/6/2025 7:35:00 AM
Awesome auto metaphor employed here. We were once roaring engines. Not yet ready to consider myself a jalopy. But it's a comin'
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Craig Cornish
Date: 1/6/2025 6:56:00 PM
Thanks Tommy - Jalopies can be very valuable if kept up! (Collector's Editions!)

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