Saw a dinosaur on my driveway today
Haven't been drinking, just trust me I say
Pink and green
He was kinda mean
Know how I know, he ate my Chevrolet
MINI METRO – CHEVROLET MATIZ
Sat in the back of a car – Mini Metro or Chevrolet Matiz –
just waiting for the crash. My crash part of our crash.
Pulping my flesh, tearing skin, crushing bones.
Severing my head as my unbroken left arm twitches –
nerve ending! At my eyes’ last sight.
Mini Metro comes to rest on its side, petrol pools and burns.
Other car gently rocks on broken axle.
All die with perfect, mechanical precision.
A used Monte Carlo was my first car.
It couldn’t be driven so very far.
Though it had been well used,
It did not look abused.
Less a ride than a fine objet d art.
Seven miles to the gallon, all it got.
We stopped at the gas pump, more than a lot.
Though gas prices were low,
My wages were also.
The car was pretty, its performance not.
I have had a number of cars since then.
None have made me as proud as I was when
I drove that sporty car
That could not go too far
Before a stop for a fill-up again.
By; Joyce Johnson
For Carol's contest "My First Car"
Won no. 2
Got it gettin' on down the straightaway,
runnin' on a thrill in the smoothest way,
cruisin' down the road through the local hop,
got it gettin' on down the neverstop,
Got it on the run in a good kind a way,
in a movin' groovin' sharp lookin' chevrolet,
gonna keep it on the run...havin' some kind a fun,
catchin' the scene in my chevy machine,
Catchin' the scene in my chevy machine,
cruisin' all around.....awake in a dream,
I ain't done nothin' but keep it clean,
I'm a high ridin' hard drivin' gene in a dream machine,
Got it on the run in a good kind a way,
in a movin' groovin' sharp lookin' chevrolet,
gonna keep it on the run, havin' some kind a fun,
catchin' the scene, in my chevy machine,
In my dream machine, clean machine,
Yea, mean machine, out at play,
gonna keep it on the run, havin' some kind a fun,
yea, catchin' the scene in my chevy machine,
Got it on the run, in a good kind a way,
in a movin' groovin' sharp lookin' chevrolet,
gonna keep it on the run, havin' some kind a fun,
catchin' the scene, in my chevy machine,
catchin' the scene in my chevy machine,
catchin' the scene in my chevy machine.