Sample Sunday: Excerpt "JAGUARMOCKY" from "A Whimsical is a Popsicle of The Mind"

Sunday Sample features Barry this week with an excerpt from his book A Whimsical is a Popsicle of The Mind (available only in a Kindle edition).

JAGUARMOCKY

by Barry Ergang

’Twas buick, and the slicky tires

Did squeal and wobble on the road.

All audi were the first-time buyers

Whom the salesmen outsnowed.

“Beware the Jaguarmock, you podge!

The clutch that grinds, the engine fartin’!

Abhor the Yugo bird, and dodge

The vroomiest Aston-Martin!”

He took his volvo wrench in hand:                  

Long time ferrari foe his fear—

Thus idled he ’neath the Hyundai tree,

And sat there out of gear.

And, as in lexus thought he sat,

The Jaguarmock, its horn a-bloogin’,

Chryslered up the porsche flat

And bellowed, “Fahrvergnugen!”

A twist! A twirl! And with a whirl

The volvo wrench went ponty-ack.

He bent and took hood ornament,

And studebakered back.

“Hast thou totaled, then, the Jaguarmock?

Come get a hug, my beemer boy!

O fordjous day! Cadlack coopay!”

He saabed with packard joy.

’Twas buick, and the slicky tires

Did squeal and wobble on the road.

All audi were the first-time buyers

Whom the salesmen outsnowed.

  

—Originally published in Maelstrom, Vol. III, Issue 2, 2000

 

Barry Ergang ©2014

A Whimsical is a Popsicle of the Mind is one of several titles available at Amazon