Detours

Things happen.  Cars don*t work so good.  Pipes break.  Five-year-olds are good at naming things as they are, and finding excitement in most anything.  

Years ago we had a car.

My son

Aged 5

Said: It doesn*t work so good.

That was before grammar

Became so all-fired

Important.

Not so good

Not so well

Either one

Said it all.

The car had a habit

Of over-heating

On the freeway.

When we took a long trip,

We could never drive

Straight through.

Years ago

Our car required

Detours,

Side tours to sights

We would never have seen

Were it not

For that car

Overheating in Ohio.

Were it not for that car

We would never have stood

On the side of the freeway

With a five year old saying

Zoom

Zoom

Zoom

Every time a car sped by.

The five year old would never have had

The supremely exciting ride

In the pick-up truck.

Without that car,

Put-in-Bay

Would probably never

Have been

On the itinerary.