LIFE LAUGHING AT ME

Photo by S. Auberle

Have you ever been in a blue funk

driving down those roads where

you've been a thousand times before,

hitting the same bumps, same old potholes

when suddenly, in a pickup truck,

a poem passes by

and you start to smile

and the road smoothes, the sky turns blue,

sun beams its warmth on you

and on the two snowmen cheerfully slumped

in the back of the truck,

waving their melting arms

carrot noses and stone eyes

slightly askew

like your view of the world

before that poem drove by you.

- mimi