Banana Seat

Greg straddles the Banana Seat

Suzy is pressed against the Sissy Bar

I squeeze into the Butterfly handle bars

We rode into the plum scented early evening

Far and Fast we screamed and ranged

Away from our homes

And all the attendant problems

Fearless, sailing past orchards and

Japanese green houses, skimming around

Elementary schools with cement play yards,

Teasing mysterious homes occupied by

Earthbound Ghosts of World War I

It all made sense

Way before the Treaty of Versailles

We children had made peace with our world

Lived in it completely 

and accepted all its weirding ways