The Buick: Section Eleven/Post-Script

What's to make of the Century's story,

Set out with no noble goal like the Argo,

Or completed in vain like the Pequod?

It was a vessel of escape for sure,

But Johnny needed to hold onto some

Kind of lifeline, because of the quartet

He'd the most to lose without knowing it

While passing through Fairview or Terre Haute,

Or when crossing the heartland's waterways.

Even though Great Falls would lead him to love

And the kindness and support of others,

The illusions he had of his mother

Dissolved every time she tore his Dad's

Mail open, more when censoring his own.

When he went off to college far away

From Maryland and Montana, by choice,

He felt his ties closer to his origins

Than to the home where the Buick took him.

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