A little blue comet

There is a little girl in a little dress
with her little knees pressed carefully
together

On her knees sits a cake with 5 little
flames that sway in the breeze

The little girl is wearing a big serious
face as she peers into the day

Does she see her first job? Her first
car? Her first place? Her first boy-
friend?

Does she see a little blue comet that
would take her to benny in windsor
and bob dylan with her and the jack
of hearts ?

To a spacious apartment on a back
alley street with high french doors
from another time

And later the chess table she bought
him and the steady work she got him
and benny quit and worried too much
and angry and driving the little blue
comet head first into the snow ditch
and her shoulders crying and crying
and crying

Everything else would be second,
after a little blue comet, able to
go almost anywhere