The Witch's Car
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Actuyally what happened when the ties broke was I was driving home from work on the back roads to avoid traffic and stay out of trouble. Good thing too because suddenly the steering went crazy on me and I jumped a ditch, just barely missed running over a dog and took out about 100 yds. of some poor farmer's fence. I finally made it home dragging about 100 yds of barbed wire tangled under the car, Another time right after buying the car I was going up a hill in the middle of Winter and just as I made it to the top of the hill my right front tire LEFT THE CAR and went into the field on the side of the road. A kind man stopped when he saw me and went into the field and retrieved my tire and put it back on for me. What would we do wiothout Good Samaritans. Thank the Good Lord I didn't get killed.
Once I had a little car,
I loved her oh so much,
But she was murdered by a man,
Who drove a big Dodge truck.
I looked around and finally found,
A car to take her place.
Who knew behind her pretty face,
The engine'd been laid waste.
She coughed and choked and gagged until,
She spit up chunks of carbon.
My husband bought her anyway,
He said that could be pardoned.
He said it was a minor thing,
He'd fix it right away.
It turned into a major bill,
That wouldn't go away.
It spent more time in the garage,
Than it did on the road,
And we were told to sell it soon,
For soon we'd need it towed.
Whoever'd worked under the hood,
For certain must be manic,
For from the looks of things in there,
He was no mechanic.
I felt so down, I'd spent so much,
This thing could not be worse.
I felt for sure that in this car,
I drove under some curse.
The ties broke as I drove it home.
I went right in the ditch.
I swear before we bought this car,
It was owned by a witch.
Copyright © Judy Ball | Year Posted 2019
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