Ode To Scirocco

[Tim Ebling <tim@surreal.com>]

Hey everyone - I found this on Volksport's page (they're a watercooled VW
club here in the Pacific Northwest) at http://www.volksport.net.  Apologies
if you've already seen it, but I have a feeling you haven't :)

-tim
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Hot Desert Wind
(Ode To Scirocco) 

One day while cruising to work I did see,
A low-slung beige rabbit gaining on me. 
So I hammered my Roccit out of the curve,
Fighting the torque-steer, not wanting to swerve. 
I thought to myself, now THAT can't be stock,
As he stuck pretty well till I started to rock. 
I opened a gap, and checked the rear view,
And off his front plate lept the letters FASTNU. 
So what's the plate mean, does it ask "FAST, aNd yoU"?
Or is it's assertion, "FASTer thaN yoU"? 
To the first I say "sure, both toys are hot",
To the latter I'd have to respond simply "NOT!" 
He chased me to work, with run after run,
Lucky for us no cops spoiled our fun. 
He followed me in till I parked in my space, 
pulled up along side with a grin on his face. 
He looked at my rocco, and asked "what'd you do"?
I smiled and answered "just a bit more than you"... 
Alas I must tell you, all good things must end,
Sometime late last winter, I lost my dear friend. 
My old white Scirocco, the friend I could trust,
succumbed to my nemesis, cancerous rust. 
Her replacement is solid, but just not the same,
With the heart of a lion, but a body so tame. 
The Rabbit runs strong with transplants galore,
But the shape is mundane, a snoozer, a bore. 
The changes are coming, with air dams and flares,
To go with the fangs that she so often bares. 
So the Roccit lives on, in a body that's bland,
But, I can't help but smile when she clears 7 grand.


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