The advertisements along the bus walls usually include things like how to send money to Latin America using Home Depot's Cash Card, bilingual charter school enrollment deadlines, a variety of health services, some very strange ones about Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and a few random ones for vocational schools.
On Saturday however, I saw an ad for the CommuterPage.com, a website highlighting various metro area transportation options, its own blog and up-to-date alerts. On their ad, they posted a winner of the 2006 Moving Words Student Poetry Competition. (Mind you not all the poems were about transportation but perhaps the author struck a soft spot.)
Congratulations Lydia!
BUS FEELINGS
When it’s a rainy, gloomy day
I get on the bus and the gloom fades away.
On the bus it’s peaceful and calm
It’s not loud, no one’s singing songs.
Then I have a great big sigh
Now I get off the bus, it makes me cry.
You see when I’m on a bus,
There is no fuss,
So next time you feel something’s wrong
Get on a bus where you belong!
Lydia Cawley
3rd Grade, Arlington Science Focus School
...and a woman in the sciences no less!
3 comments:
I saw that today too! I think it's fair to say that not many can capture the nuances and essence of the DC bus system -- you and Lydia are a rare treat in this world of going from here to there.
I just got back from Boston, where I rode the subway everyday. There are some strange ads on the trains there. There was this one for a sperm bank, and it featured a huge dollar sign ($) that resembled a woman's egg in sex-ed pamphlet-art-style, and around the whole periphery of this gigantic dollar-sign-shaped-egg were hundreds of sperm trying to penetrate it. What would that baby look like? A montrous, cartoonish person with a dollar-sign shaped head? Gives me the creeps.
Wow! My daughter IS Lydia and we just "googled" her for fun and your lovely comments are what we found. I could not be more proud! Thank You!
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