Life’s Little Misdirections 🥀🦋

Dear Brother, How Poetic?

The truck is broken
it’s snowing
Alex needs the car for work tonight

the truck stays in the garage tonight
can’t employ it on these roads
maybe we’ll give Alex a ride to work

engine light appeared on the truck this morning
and the roads are a mess
don’t want Alex in the ditch again with that car

I’m done paying to repair this truck
supposed to get us through another winter
can less afford risk to Alex in that car

why can’t I trust a truck?
what peril new snow on roads?
what good is a car that fails, too?

how are you and your aging truck?
how’s the weather?
how am I to care for that boy and these vehicles?

I should buy something new
We should move from this zone
Alex needs to be on his own
I could get him a truck
move to Arizona
with a car that has its share of repairs, too

have you seen truck prices?
this weather?
this debt growing each day and night?

I remember when I wasn’t ready to grow up
when cars weren’t equipped for these roads
when dad always bailed me out, or you


1.27.23