Come to think of it

Two weeks removed from teenage-hood
what the hell am I doing here
hell, irony –
when all the talk is about heaven,
the afterlife – is there? Perhaps Greg knows.
Outside
beatific sunshine
old brick and new pavers
I and two others from high school shake hands with his parents –
polite and formal – 
“ Oh yes, of course. Nice to see you. Thank you for coming.”

Slowly through stately and sedate avenues behind
the stately and sedate hearse,
to the motorway
and……
eight cylinders of chrome and Cadillac
becomes eight cylinders of flash and Cadillac
sheeeeyit
faaarrrrck
“well,”
shrugs the driver of the clapped-out Ford
“ did ya think there was a hearse lane.”