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Marilyn dreams of driving horses

Marilyn dreams of driving horses

         for Marilyn Brune

Marilyn has a Beamer
that she drives to work,
choosing what works over new.
No need to waste,
the wreck will do!

Her job's to cross the t's
and dot the i's.
A job of knowing "why?",
what blank to fill,
what drives the cogs of bureaucrats,
to know what's new
among the guards who
changed what she knew yesterday.
They shrug,
"That's so passé.
Our job's to make life interesting."

So as they drive
off in new SUVs,
she dreams of old jobs
driving horses.

© Kåre Enga 2007 [164.343] 2007-11-08

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A tritina in non-tritina format. The repeating words are: drive / new / job. I underlined them (they come every tenth beat: ABC/ CAB/ BAC and then a last line of BCA [usually ABC]) to make it easier for y'all. Which reminds me that Marilyn tells everyone that Oklahoma is good for only one thing. ... It keeps Texas out of Kansas. Like the joke about the cop in Texas when he stopped someone in their BMW asking, "How do you spell that?"

Now, the facts: Marilyn does drive a beat-up BMW. She is very good at knowing how to fill out forms that even bureaucrats can't argue with. She knows how they bluff and how to call their bluff. She's AWESOME! And one of the reasons I am doing so much better than before. She also drives carriage at the Plaza in Kansas City during the holidays. It's an old job she's had for 20 years; horses like her. Marilyn's also a vegetarian (but that doesn't work into the poem )

Kansas: 53 sunny degrees. And leaves falling, falling (faster than London Bridge).

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