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MAVY

by Oak Jones

February 19, 2021

Dedicated to all material objects that are worth infinitely more than they sell for.

Most families own a dog or cat

Or parrot if they're different

But my family went and one upped that 

We bought a blue elephant

We named our big pet MAVY

The first day we brought it home

Mormon Adventure Vehicle Yo!

Far and wide you'll roam

Cape Reinga might have been the first

But far far from the last

Waikaremoana, Kerikeripapango, 

Whangamomona and Haast

Eight times she's braved Cook Strait waves 

And twice now Mt Cook's weather

Cooked her engine twice as well

Our Captain Cook's Endeavour

Piopio is her favorite stop 

Back to the Nak she'd bring the fam

Yet Mavy wore many a cape

Apart from horizon's battering ram

Mav was a top class educator

Though her aux cord was unwise

Soon we all would nod along

And bat our heavy eyes

Unless it was Harry Pots

Or something else enthralling

Then we wouldn't take a break

Apart from occasionally stalling 

Mavy makes a mean bunk bed

Beneath, inside, on top

3 levels without counting where 

We stuffed Bebes with her lollipop

'Party' we would all agree 

Was the middle section's middle name

Constant leg weaving, belly laugh heaving

Card table brought Mav into fame

Most things were lost in that middle space

Yet one item was always in the clog

An ice cream container just in case 

The picnic table became a bog

The broken, half open, wee little window

Let in a gentle breeze

But only on one person so 

Mav gains sauna status with ease 

At the start of any notable trip 

The back outdid a top end ute

The petrol guzzler took a jigsaw puzzler

But it fit our house into the boot

The heart beat of Mavy is found

In the screeching sliding door

Slam it shut, slam it again

Was a classic, constant chore

No siren didn't stop Mav mate 

From a long night as an ambulance

Hang a disco ball and great!

A limousine for the dance  

The nausea inducer, cell phone loser

With a lingering turpid smell

Back road hooner, trumpet boomer

The support crew's support crew as well

The bus to school on rainy days

The parallel parking piranha

The fast and flattened way to heav'n 

For pesty flora and fauna

A bass note of pure family life

The ballast for our sail

A money eater, fat 9 seater

Type of Jonah's whale

Many vans leave legacies

But never was one greater

Than the big blue van with munted keys

Our dearest Mavinator

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Let your heart know it's okay to be broken sometimes

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