Here already?

How did we make it to our place

in a way not slow?

Perhaps the curvature of space.

I don’t rightly know.

The time we made was really good

on the flip-flop and

faster than you think we could

in a ‘95 Astro Van.

Who can say? Perhaps was it

the slight downward grade

that added to the deficit

in the time we made?

I don’t know equations.

Math for me is rough.

And I never had the patience

for all that physics stuff.

Perhaps it was a worm-hole.

A singular what-cha-ma-call.

Or perhaps it was the psychic toll

the trip took on us all.

 

We love to travel.

Yes we do.

But we wished

the trip were through.

First, it was borin’,

then time just flew.

Just like for Orr in

Catch 22.

But, we love to travel.

Oh, yes we do.

We think you’d love it

if you traveled, too.

 

Yes, perhaps it was the toll that messy

trip took on us all.

We went and saw Aunt Bessie,

then found another mall.

Then, we went to their Applebee’s.

But, it was just the same.

We went and watched them make some cheese,

then caught a softball game.

 

But, we love to travel.

I will remind.

Just made it east

in record time.

We didn’t ‘book’.

‘Least not per se.

We somehow took

a faster way.

But we love traveling,

oh, yes, we do.

I just guess

we sorta flew.

 

One in our party, as we carred

told of an evil cat.

“In the parking lot, and off my guard.

In stocking feet at that!

See,

I was knocking clods off of my boots

and this cat comes up curious.

When I told the cat that he was cute,

he responded furious.

That cat made for my calf

I confess: I came unglued.

I skedaddled, he began to laugh.

You see me now un-shoed.”

The miles sped away

as the shoeless tale he told.

Speaking of our trip that day,

and the cat who was so bold.

 

Now, we miss touring.

And, all we’ve seen.

Now, we’re enduring

the in-between.

We’ve time to burn,

but here we stay.

We will return

on Labor Day.

 

Our fortitude that trip did test.

Visiting ten miles west.

Making time a treacly mess.

We got home before we left!