This poem came from prompting from ABC Wednesday - I is for....
I wasn't expecting Gladys.
Gladys the curious or Gladys at all
I was writing about ice breakers
And the Zamboni rumbled onto the page
I thought, "I don't want an ice smoother,
I want an ice breaker!" I looked up
and saw her, bulbous nose pushed against
the window pane of the poem
I let her in
Gladys the nosy turned
Gladys, Zamboni's wife
What would their child look
like, I pondered - enormous
long toothed claw arms of curiosity,
reaching out across the smoothed ice
steel insistently breaking
Gladys the meddler
crashing through layers
of carefully crafted, boringly smooth
waiting to be sliced through
one skate at a time but instead
the child of Gladys Kravitz Zamboni
moved deftly kerplunking, confusion
across her forehead when the
powers-that-be shuddered and
moaned at the wreckage and I think
I would rather be Gladyz Kravitz
Zamboni than a white-washed
flat affect never wondering woman
who blindly agrees with the smooth iced
"this is how we've always done it" lifestyle
editor of the Delta Gamma magazine
Whose most interesting conversation
is made up of four words as one
howareyoufine
finehowareyou
never enough oomph to break
the ice
Loved this! I think we have a few Gladys's in our village! lol!
Great poem.
Denise
ABC Team
Posted by: Denise | September 15, 2010 at 01:50 AM
wow...beautiful i!
Posted by: Jingle | September 15, 2010 at 02:43 AM
We need a Gladys or two to make us sit up and take notice.
Posted by: jabblog uk | September 15, 2010 at 05:53 AM
Oh, dear, I remember watching her on Bewitched. Feeling old.
Nice poem, tho.
ROG, ABC Wednesday team
Posted by: Roger Green | September 15, 2010 at 06:42 AM
Terrific joining of Gladys and ice breakers. Fun poem. Very clever.
Posted by: photowannabe | September 15, 2010 at 02:10 PM
Hilarious having her married to the Zamboni and not the Zamboni driver. Very good "i" is for icebreaker poem. LOL
Kay
Alberta, Canada
Posted by: Kay, Alberta, Canada | September 15, 2010 at 03:07 PM
Poetry from Julie Jordan Scott: Gladys, Zamboni's Wife: Icebreaking - ABC Wednesday Poem
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