My Adventure with Bryan Brown and the Freeway of Life
Twas the start of spring break and all through the school
there were rustlings and bustlings and plans for the pool.
Said my deskmate to me, let us go to Sam's Club
we'll get a mattress for you and for me a big tub
of macaroni with cheese and your guests won't feel dumpy
they'll sleep well on that bed even if they are plumpy.
"I have very few funds," I said with a look
still, my guests' comfort comes first in my book.
Imagine our sorrow and great alarm at the view
when the bungee cord snapped and out the bed flew.
Then two rednecky trucks rolled right over the prize;
can you picture the horror, the alarm in my eyes?
When out of the dust who should appear
my friend the hero, his will sharp like a spear.
He dashed into traffic, jumped over a biker;
I stood there aghast beside a hitch-hiker.
He dodged two tractor trailers and just like a roe*
he leapt out of traffic with the mattress in tow!
He placed the now wavy pad in the bed of my truck
and then seeing my sorrow cursed the bad luck.
A more noble creature I'll never meet.
No one more determined with such nimble feet
has ever acted so bravely, with such lightning speed.
His most capricious command will now be my creed.
It's a true friend who'll take you shopping instead
of doing his homework and then risk his life for your bed.
*roe /rō/ n. (also roe-deer) a small Eurasian deer, Capreolus capreolus, with short pointed antlers. The roe is bred for its skills in magic and was renowned by the ancient Greeks for its noble character and ability to make all your wildest dreams come true.
2 comments:
This is the best poem I have ever read!! It is simply hilarious! Keep up the good work, Dave. I laughed when I saw that you had defined roe for us because I am studying poetry in my AP Lit class, and I recently came across a poem with that word in it. It is in the poem "Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey" by William Wordworth.
"I came among these hills; when like a roe I bounded o'er the mountains..."
His use is a metaphorical, too. What a...coincidence?
I have to admit...I've read a poem or two before. In fact I'm not sure it was that poem Carrie, but I did learn "roe" from a poem, I'm sure. Who else would say "roe?"
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