I’m not exactly sure what an ode is. My Mac’s dashboard dictionary tells me an ode is a lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter.
• historical – a poem meant to be sung.
So while I’m sure this isn’t an ode, it sounds like if you sing it, it will become one. So please sing along with me:
Oh to my poor little Civic,
I will miss you so.
I owned you for 6 years,
and you took me everywhere I wanted to go.
You died with 258,256 miles,
that sure is a lot.
I only paid $1100 for you,
a bargain is what I got.
Sure you didn’t have A/C,
and the windshield had two giants cracks. (the rhyming is too hard, I hope you enjoyed it)
You had rust galore,
and even a hole in the hood.
A broken axle was your dying blow,
And no I’m not paying another 500 bucks to fix you again.
You were a great car,
but your 42 MPG are only a memory.
More like 25 MPG, plus tons of extra oil.
Your time had finally come,
and you surely will be missed.
It feels like a I lost a pet.
A goldfish.
You will always be in my heart.
And since I got 200 bucks for you for scraps,
like an organ donor,
your spirit will live on as they give your parts out to other cars.
Sing it out: (with vigor)
WE LOVE YOU CIVIC
WE WILL MISS YOU CIVIC
YOU WERE A CHICK MAGNET CIVIC
YOUR INTERIOR KINDA SMELLED CIVIC
WE LOVE YOU CIVIC
It’s okay to cry.
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Loved your ode to CIVIC sniff-sniff
Hilarious. My favorite is… Like loosing a pet… A goldfish. Lol now you have some poetry for the next open mic 🙂
This is one of the greatest blog postings of all time. OF ALL TIME.
You have a gift…
Beautifully written, Noah. I so much enjoyed singing along. RIP little Civic! I’d write more, but I’m all choked up… gota wipe away my tears!
And it still looks better than my Accord . Where did you sell it? I don’t think I’m far behind. (I will miss my Accord, when the time comes, but I don’t think I’ll be versifying my sadness).
Roger, University Foreign Car is who gave me the 200 bucks. A friend helped me push it to Dagwood’s parking lot, where it spent the night, then the next morning the guy at Univ. Foreign Car hooked it to his car with a tow strap as they are only a few buildings down from Dagwood’s.