Anna Couani #27 response to SH and KB, maybe SSVW - VW's I have known

car by Itzick Fisher

I learnt to drive
in an aqua VW bug
but the first VW I owned
was a blue Kombi
that we fitted out
to travel with
but it was a bomb
the second VW
a white bug
caught fire
outside the garage
when the garage
caught fire

and molten wax 

ran down the gutter

the third VW was a
Carmen Ghia
fabulous maroon and white body
but a bomb
the fourth VW was
a sky blue station wagon
it actually worked
but was boring
and lived on
into my partner’s afterlife
after relationship
then I inherited
my Dad’s blue VW bug
relatively new
fifth and last VW
drove it so much
over 18 years
drove everywhere
with everyone
good for groups
it appeared in poems
chopped out
chunks of rust
Dad spray painted
the rusty roof white
with aerosol cans
we sold it but
still saw it
for years
beetling around the
inner west
couldn't miss it