POEM - Car-less and Carefree

It probably should’ve been

A rougher time

When we didn’t have a car

For those few months

Coming as it did

Right before Christmas

But all things said and done

We couldn’t have been happier

We felt so environmentally aware

As we hooked the child trailer

Onto my mountain bike

And towed Claire and Ezra around

From the grocery store

To the restaurant

And that one day

When we missed the bus

I carted Claire all the way to school

She still mentions it

Remembers crossing the walking bridge

And watching the freeway below

It didn’t stop us at all

We even had a big family dinner

Peddled up to the corner grocery

Loaded all the food into the kid cart

And I carried the huge box

Of fried chicken and rolls

On my handlebars all the way home

And we liked not having a car

Getting around under our own power

Creatively using what we had

Making do when we hadn't