Poem for February 2010

It takes courage to put your high-mileage life up on the lift and give it a good, hard look.

         -- Meredith Holmes

 

Carma

By Dianne Borsenik

 

got a dent in my carma

if you know what I mean

 

the fenders are muddy

I can't wipe 'em clean

 

can't see through the windows

can't open the door

 

the tires are flat and

there's holes in the floor

 

forget pressing the brake

can't stop it from going

 

no adjusting the heat

and the gas light is glowing

 

there's hope in the engine

but none of it stays

 

my carma is used

and it's seen better days

 

Dianne Borsenik is cofounder and co-host of the monthly Lix & Kix Poetry Extravaganza in Lakewood, Ohio. Her work has appeared in Slipstream, Voices of Cleveland, and Haiku World: An International Poetry Almanac. Actor Jonathan Frid of "Dark Shadows" used three of her poems in his one-man play Genesis of Evil. Her chapbook HardDrive/SoftWear was published in 2009 by Crisis Chronicles Press.