You see it everywhere,
this detached oddfellow
rolled up in gutters
leaning on lamp posts
dust covered and weed riven,
in every town from Marseilles to Berlin
along the Mississippi,
washed up by the Seine
this scatterling castaway
not able to hold on
skidding off into oblivion

Unfastened Flying Objects
that can’t find their cars
from the top of Mt. Everest
to the parking lots of Mars-
plastic moon hubcap
cheap modern design
ubiquitous fake chrome fixture
an alien creature
from the planet Audi, Ford or Fiat-
a testament to the fact
that man cannot permanently
fix anything.

D.E.Stevens
https://stevenspost.wordpress.com