This is Just to Say

[zdashamber]

I have bought
the car
that was new
from Honda

the shiny
midnight blue
Insight--
the hybrid.

Forgive me.
It was irresistible
so small
and so sleek.



As you may recognize if you've read Teresa Nielsen Hayden's "Slushkiller", I'm riffing here on William Carlos Williams's poem This is Just to Say; further inspired by the excellent Guy Noir Prairie Home Companion sketch on the subject.

Oh, wait, did you come back here to learn more about the car?

Hee hee hee.

Comments

[follybard.livejournal.com]

Squeeeeeeee!!!! Congrats!

My car turned 10 last summer, and despite the teeny number of miles on her, I know I'll need to give her up eventually. A recent perusal of the Saturn website revealed that none of their new models (or current colors) are as cool as my baby. So hybrids have jumped way up the list of my possible future cars. (If I can resist the Mini, that is....)

[zdashamber.livejournal.com]

I was really attracted to the Mini, too. Their "put together a car" thing was nifty. Heated sideview mirrors? Sweet!

I came down on the side of gas mileage eventually, though. I mean, what if zombies overrun Oakland? I want the most possible range to escape before having to stop to refuel... ;)

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

I still think the Insight looks like a sneaker. But a very cool sneaker, of course.

[zdashamber.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I think most cars today look like sneakers. I'm happy enough to settle for "very cool". :)

(The past few years I've been developing a strange affection for the landbarge-type car body, the "Chrysler as big as a whale" sort of completely flat car, maybe with tailfins. Tailfins are nifty.

And at the Forney Museum of Transportation (http://www.forneymuseum.com), my favorite was the Stutz.)

[a2macgeek.livejournal.com]

Cool! Let me know what you think of it. My car's 13 years old, and I really want my next car to be a hybrid.