6593. MY NEW FILM

MY NEW FILM

They are test-driving cars alongside the curve

of the river  -  where the two-lane road goes fast

and open. Ad-men, I think, doing photos and such.

Cars run in fashion like everything else, and these days,

anyway, speed's not the battle. The Cadillac runs like

a hood-monster's drug-tank Escalade, the Range Rover

seems made for a Queen  -  the dainty, lush squish of

a big-bottomed seeker of comfort; mothers, kids, all

kinds of shopping. This Audi Q5 just makes no sense

at all. To me it's a loafer squeezed in the boot of the

military police. But, I stand here and watch as they turn.

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Whatever nation-state stands here too, whatever people 

we've become, I guess we've decided to divide it by

'cars'  -  some new form of Pi which does not  -  most

definitely  -  lead to piety, or humility. Like that old oil

company which used to call itself 'Humble Oil Co.', then
Esso, than Exxon. What the hell, who cares, go on.