Long Clunker Poems

Can somebody please give this uber muff fuller a lyft?
alternately titled: jump starter for clunky, junky,
quirky, xyz mechanic wanted in tow tow -
chassis what I mean?)

As the proud graduated
honorably rolled 2009 Hyundai
Sonata vehicular property
belonging to...

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I am getting old now, I can only turn over
They can’t get me to run, but I not all done.
My valves are leaking, I often misfire
My fuel gauge will sputter my heart will flutter
I go...

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Today I took the car in for a simple lube and change of oil.
What began as a routine day, the mechanic proceeded to spoil.
I thought my pride in fine mechanical shape, of that I often...

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Dreamers Dream
                          by Odin Roark

Tulsa’s hard times made the decision...

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Of course it was pouring rain,
When my tire decided to go flat;
And I wasn’t really surprised
To find no spare in the trunk in back.

It was four o’clock in the morning;
I was headed home to catch...

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The sky will stay up there and meet the horizon
time will continue, and  the tide that smoothes  the shore
gulls will be searching for some food that washed up
we had our bed and breakfast...

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If you believe in numbers,
then the evidence is in ...
and we all know that numbers don't lie
Mr. Forty-six Percent President,
popular opinion ain't the reason why
you're moving into the White House
Numbers can make you sick sometimes
when...

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a set of old tires,
bald as a turtle's head;
the engine won't start,
'cause the battery's dead!

sank my last dollar,
on this piece of ol' junk;
all it does is rattle,
and go "clunkety-clunk!"

a funky lil' dealer,
in high water pants;
sold...

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Again on the side of the road with my head under the hood,
A firm jiggle on the starter wire and start again she probably should.
More than a month’s salary to get her fixed, I cannot...

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I ride the bus to work,
and sometimes I put on a very displeasing look:
I complain with sardonic humor,
" These city buses are never on time! "
The scruffy man beside me sweats and scratches his hair,
"...

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Once upon a time
In a land not so far
Lived a lead footed man
Alone with his car.

He longed to go fast
Speed flawlessly down the track
So he looked for a car
A Mustang in fact.

It was love at...

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I thought I’d write an exquisite ode
like marvelously well crafted code:
a soaring flight to fancied flows,
but that’s not how this clunker goes.
You can’t out-sleep a five-year-old,
or if you can, you’ll soon regret;
you’ll wake in terror,...

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By Lori Steindorf Copyright July 22, 2021

One promises this
One promises that
One plies me with his culinary flair
And then tells me I'm fat and hates my hair.

Tired of trying to earn my Mrs degree
When all this...

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Once upon a time, I wanted some Archways,
Those yummy spicy Windmills, I say,
So good spread with soft cream cheese,
To keep myself if you please.

Got in my clunker to head down the road,
Hidden in that car...

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Every other week during summer, or fall ...
there's a loud noise rattling my huge window
facing the shady street
where no kids are seen.

.

Old fashioned grass cutters like the one I had made a minimal noise,
I don't...

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They stole my brand-new bike from where
I’d left it in the yard.
Since I was only eight years old,
I really took it hard.

I’d only had it for a week
But it fit all my needs – 
The...

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I climb in Suzanne,
She ain't no hippy van,
She's rusty and forgotten
Her soul is slightly rotten
But I believe she's grand.

I turn the key and roar her 
Then I beg her like a schnorrer
Won't you let me...

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Hang a left, clunker rocking
on sprung shocks.
Inside,
narrows taper to booths.
The place is slow-time empty.

The staff talk is griddle speech,
a blow by blow banter,
middle finger smarts mixed with
vowels of regrets.

From the lips of waitresses
the clipped history
of...

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I hide in a celom of a Langur when it sleeps,
In the shadow of a burl at the door of a temple,
I - a knotted clunker rolling ever so slowly
In the corner of the brotherhood...

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A Million Bucks for a 2005 Chrysler?

By Elton Camp 

On e-Bay that’s the asking opening bid
For a clunker the owner wants to be rid

Car wasn’t much good when it was new
So how can such price...

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 Moonie 

It was in the seventies I was out at St George,
Playing pool with the locals,
and the blacksmith from his forge,
I was winning, had a winning streak,
But I was getting a bit drunker,
So it...

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I hang a left, my clunker rocking
on sprung shocks.
Inside, narrows taper to booths.
The talk is griddle speech,
a blow by blow banter,
middle finger smarts mixed with
vowels of tenderness.
I overhear the history
of generations of icons. False gods...

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Camel Tow
By Franklin Price
12/20/2016

Have I gotten your attention?
I have a story here to tell,
About a different camel tow;
Bet you thought I couldn't spell.

I was driving through the desert,
In a clunker called a car,
Wasn't long, it...

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The amazing, incredible, wonderful car
This extraordinary , inexplicable part of who we are

The big, the little, the long, the short, the bus
An exciting, capricious  part of the kid in us

The clunker , the hybrid,...

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See the world from a child’s perspective. 
As you play with dolls and dream of the perfect family.
Watch your parents lead the way, 
hopefully you’ll be like them someday.
Drive hot wheels from room to room
just...

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