The car - a sardine can with wheels
Racing up, down and around
Train tracks on mountain slopes
Six vacationing fish
All oiled up for the occasion
Anxiously peer through windows
Dreaming of a can opener
A steering wheel confused
On the wrong side of the car
Turns back and forth
At the force of the drive

They ride
All anxiously quiet
Being in a first time place
Then…
A wooden bridge ahead
The noisy wheels rumbling
Loudly over the planks.
Seemingly rehearsed just for this moment
A goat and her young appear
Crossing the wooden bridge
The mama goat glares
At the noisy touring sardines
Baaaaa – she scolds…
A peculiar moment of silence follows…
And then, a burst of hysterical laughter
The six sardines liberate gut-wrenching guffaws
With tears flowing… laughing
At what, they weren’t quite sure…

But they are later to recognize
That life’s most enjoyable times
Have nothing to do with places or things
But have everything to do with
Who you spend that time with
While taking pleasure
In the simplest of things… 
 
All is well with the world…
And the only affirmation, is laughter!
 
Rumble, rumble, rumble… Baaaaaaaaaaa