Brave and valiant,

Gleaming maroon in the evening sky

Fighting on for dear, dear life

Never again to traverse the dusty road

Highway 101

You were strong and you were true

You never shirked a duty

Carrying loads of theatre students

Friends

Hungry for a bite

Excited to get to rehearsal

You have gone where many before you have failed

You have traveled long and far

Across the snowy mountains,

Under dripping overpasses

Across many states, to the center of the country

Your life has been marked by many struggles

Pain has been inflicted

You made it through a speeding collision

You got a bump, but you gave much worse back

You totaled that motorcycle,

Like the bad ass vehicle you are

Mom broke your lock, and your door

But you still opened from the other side

Gas mileage—you got plenty

Another ding you were given,

Also by another one of my sister’s collisions

This time with a pole

Once again, you weathered on through

You were an amazing car

Luxury seats, automatic windows

Air conditioning and a heater

You had eleven beautiful years of life

And you served faithfully under six masters

You are honored

Your last year of life was a vicissitude

You were sick often, but when you went

You really went

You made it through hundreds of rainstorms

And even though your driver couldn’t see because your wipers were so slow

You still drove straight and true

Ish

You were even so honorable you would

swerve to avoid even the tiniest squirrel

You were impossible to parallel park

You leaned to the right

But this just gave you character

You went by many names

Some pleasant, some not

Once you were a family car

Then you were The TANK

When you passed onto your final master

you gained another name

It is with a lot of love, and pain

That we see you go to your end at last

You made it for a year without being pulled over

With a burnt out tail light

You made it through ice and snow,

You made it through an antifreeze leak

You overheated on the highway,

You almost killed us dead

But most of all you filled my dreams

And drove like you had a trunk full of lead

This eulogy is rather lengthy,

For memories with you were long

And many

And it is with great regret

That your transmission was not as strong as your soul

So, my dear dear dear

Behemoth

It is time to let you go

Sincerely, With utmost sadness,

Your Driver,

Emilie