Volume 18, Number 103, June/July 2015
Truck Route
by Carol Loewen

Trucks with everything inside
Are passing, passing by
Sugar beets, a worn canoe, closed and open bin
I wonder, wonder what it is that they have packed within
Gasoline and water trucks, Caterpillars plenty
Sugar beets, more sugar beets
Multi grains and heaps of wheat
Must be cookies, fruit and milk
Tempting, but they’re gone
Small four wheeler hauled for play
Posts and poles and wind mill blades
Fedex delivers what you send
Fargo passing on the left
Turning cement trucks on the run
Garbage trucks to clean the town
Oversized and over wide
Red flags flutter
Heartland, Wheatland going, gone
Bison ate his growlies
Ritzy ritzy, old Old Dutch
Kindersley and Kindereggs rushing off to market
A few are sitting out the ride
For sale or gone commuting
Some trucks whistle past each car
Some trucks whine or whir
Or beep, beep, beep high and loud
Warning, watch behind
Riding horses, driving cows and chickens with their feathers
Golden Oval - eggs are moved, following the chickens
Super tankers, Holstein milk
Bringing, taking, towing
This way, that way, all around
Paper products? Tissue rolls? Straight to Cuba with that load
A porta-potty whooshes by on the other side
I hear, I hear, I hear
And hear
that pigs are shipped in buses now in Friendly Manitoba