(A quadrille for my old car)
The mirror sticker on the hatch
(with pillar rust and fender denter)
such a giveaway, screams back right off
coz
at any moment (most awk.
or mid-villain rant)
with a cough of old paint
and a fall of soft toys
the magic
starts up.
Image: The auto-bot parked on Cowper St, Port Kembla (“all quiet OP”). A quadrille for dverse where the number is 100 and word is magic.
And here’s the magic of Sandy Denny from 1972 with ‘It’ll take a long time…’
Peter Frankis writes 
you brought this to life with your own magic way with words –
“with a cough of old paint
and a fall of soft toys”
excellent contrast & so visual
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An unusual starting up of magic at the end.
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haha– I love it! Everyday magicks, like that old car starting one more time, are the best.
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I really like the “cough of old paint.”
There must be some magic involved when some old cars actually start. Sandy Denny was definitely magical.
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Maybe the magic is good Japanese engineering
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Your Corolla reminds me of my previous car, a Camry, which had an interesting crop of lichen on the back. It magically disappeared 18 months ago, and cough was replaced by grunt.
I enjoyed this humour of this one.
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