SO---DUH!

SO—DUH!

The temperature one day

Was hot for a day in late May…

      My car’s insides

      Were fit to be fried,

With the windows rolled up all day.

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Drove off in the afternoon

To work near a greasy spoon…

      Took no time to check

      My soda can “tech.”

But put a warm one in the holder for “soon.”

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I heard a loud POP, then…BANG,

Hot Moxie* soda outward sprang…

      The can sudd’nly burst

      To the ceiling (the worst),

For minutes more, my ears rang.

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It splattered onto the windshield,

And on the “tranny” hump congealed…

      Just one tiny spot

      My white work shirt got,

But survival was what most appealed!

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Nearly tore the can apart,

But I didn’t have the heart

      To waste elixir,

      After all that occurred…

So I drank up the remaining part.

—-Jonathan Caswell

*MOXIE is a regional soda with a following in New England, parts of the North East, Florida, Pennsylvania and California—at least that is where most of its fans reside!