No Movement.

The prompt this weekend fromWeekend Wordsmith was "A car breaks down. Here is what I came up with:

No Movement

It's more personal than it should be.
This hunk of metal and rubber on the side of the road.
Steam billowing like an old freight train - only -
No movement.

A source of self-identification, pride
This hunk of metal and rubber on the side of the road.
Remembering how cool you felt before...
No movement.

The key of course is to not care about
This hunk of metal and rubber on the side of the road.
Enjoying instead a disimpassioned response to
No movement.

Your friends will tell you what you should have bought instead of
This hunk of metal and rubber on the side of the road.
And you will have to listen with feigned interest and
No movement.