2019/23

Global/NaPoWriMo 2019

Day Twenty Three

HELLO

AM I EVEN

LISTENING

Sitting in the car

I think it's a car

it may be a van

or a people carrier

whatever that is

How many wheels

has it got I ask

they ignore me

I'm only asking

because people

talk about four wheel

drive half-tracks and

six wheelers

I used to ride Honda's

Suzuki's and Lambretta

scooters when they still let me

I had loads of cars but

my favourite were the

VW Transporter vans

I had six of them over the years

all long wheel base

apart from the last one

What did you say

one of them asked me

How many wheels has it got

I repeat myself

How many wheels has what got

This car I tell her/them/him

I never know who I'm talking to

and they usually don't answer

They don't answer

one of them turns the radio up

it's rap music

they think it's called wrap

whatever hello am I even listening

'down on the streets

where the puppy dogs meet'

I join in I know that one

'and the big dogs mate'

I sing 'by the back alley

where Gordon met his fate'

How do you know

this stuff they ask me

I wrote it I tell them

Seriously are you a

musician they ask me

No a lyricist I inform them

Wow you must be loaded

they tell me it sounds like Lou Reed

Yeah I say what do they know

'take a walk on the wild side'

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