Gramps Plumbster
Gramps Plumbster is a car.
I bought him for a hundred dollars
and my four-year-old named him.
Driving Gramps is like flying
a little crop-duster from the thirties.
There's no back seat, he's almost as noisy
and landing him in one piece in my driveway
is just as exciting as coming down safely in a cow pasture.
Sometimes his dials do funny things,
so I jiggle some wires under the dash
and they go back to normal.
Gramps is easy to get along with that way.
But I wish he had a prop,
so I could pull on it when he doesn't want to turn over.Poems and other embarassing things. 2010 Franco Bertucci