October 13th

My car

Is old

A relic

From

2001

I do my best

To take care of it

But I am broke

And some fixes

Can cost hundreds —

And that

I am not willing

To ask

Of others

However

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Today

I have failed my poor Buick

While parking

The stalls

Were narrow

And the bollards

Unyielding

Beside the power box

I don’t blame them —

They did their job

— But alas

As I backed to straighten

My mirror

Hit

The one

I failed to see