Ode to a 1993 Ford Tempo GL

O Tempo

Fourteen years is a good age for a car

Especially for one manufactured on this continent, methinks

100,600 kilometers

Two provinces and many points in between

You seem angry to have been left behind

For Newfoundland

Mocking me, falling apart since my return

New battery, new brake disk, new flasher

New belt of sepentine variety

And now, a new left turn signal bulb

Are you finished exacting your revenge?

Twenty-one days

and we will go our separate ways

What else will break on you?