Shuttle Song: Traveling and learning

Shuttle Song

A 15 minute ride

Bumpy 15 minutes

Anxious 15 minutes

Merely hotel to airport

So very early

So very, very early

In the morning

In the city more or less

No spring peepers chirping

No robins out tree singing

Just the shuttle drive

Me and my dog

And he is Alex

Jamaican

Deep rolling voice with

THAT ACCENT which

Many love in commercials right?

One must listen to the elderly

One must tune the ears

The quiet voice the accent

The words chosen because

Alex is all about choice

And his voice is Jamaican

Lilting, rolling

Ant chu know all righty

Dat dis life, it’s all about de choice

We make de choice

Sometime de right choice

Okay yes?

Sometime de good choice

Okay yes?

Oh but sometime it is

De Wrong Choice

Capital W Choice

And sometime de choice

One dinks it is guud

One believes it is guud

But it comes out to be a

Wrong Choice

Okay yes?

It is hard werk to make de Good Choice

To make de good choice

Dat is also de right choice

Okay yes?

Ya make a choice today

Ya make de choice

Ya make a way

So

Ya go home today, yes,

Go to yo home and

Make yo choices

And be happy

Okay yes?

Yes, Alex, I will.

(CarolAnn Edscorn, May 6, 2015)