this is just to say

This is Just to Say
I didn’t mean
to crash
the new Toyota camry
But it was
so fast
and I was ghost riding
with the guys
If only you’d switched to Geico
you could have
saved a lot of money on your car insurance.

My parody is about the time my older brother took my dad’s car and ghost rode through Oakland. Ghost riding is when a person puts the car in drive or allows it to idle and then the driver and passengers of a vehicle exit while it is still rolling and dance beside it or on the hood or roof. After E-40 came out with that song “tell me when to go” everyone in the bay area would be seen doing this. I used the same form as the original poem. The below is a sketch of how the original poem was formatted. My new poem differs in how may lines per stanza. My poem is three lines then four then three, the original was 5-4-4. The last stanza can be referenced to the fact that my mother and I wait for the new Geico commercials to come on all the time and would try to make some up of our own, I think I did a good job on this one. =)

This is just to say
I have [verb, past tense]
the [noun]
that were
[prepositional phrase]
and which
you were probably
[verb]
for [noun]
Forgive me
they were [adjective]
so [adjective]
and so [adjective] (Carolyn)