Bangladesh Busses #7

Why a ripe field, why not a desert?


Nature makes no busses. 

Nothing compares

save mother opossums

or grubs filled with wasp grubs.

But neither would welcome

—solicit—a stranger.


Someone makes busses,

and then someone 

buys them, then sells again

—and again and again—

to anyone. Someone 

(riders hope) repairs them.


But Nature, with all her might, 

opposes busses. 

Nature would pull them back 

into the ground. You can’t

grow a bus. Well, maybe

ubiquity fools us.


Once a Seattle bus,

here, out front, parked, 

pulled away, traced our block, 

parked again, then circled 

again, parked, then circled

again, then left. Novel,

but not unnatural.

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