Car Shopping With Clemenza

car shopping with clemenza

(this appeared in "lessons from the godfather" on ISSUU.Com where it is poem  #12)

hey mikey

you see what they call trunk room now

i don't think we coulda fit sal in there

in one piece anyway

 

best thing these days

they got rid of that center post in the windshield

good for the drive-in movies you know

 

yep, window repair might be got probably harder an' more expensive

but c'mon         how many times they shoot out one side an'

not the other

yeah yeah  moe green's glasses

 

oh wait a minute mikey

no running boards

we might need two maybe three cars instead a one now

 

an' we gotta update the fake taxi 'n' cop car, too

o this is gonna be expensive

 

jesus mary look at all the colors now

like we need different colors

hey, you see this hat

 

whaddaya mean you're out of black in that model

psst mikey    we need to shop somewheres else

this neighborhood is going to hell

peter, petto, mi amico,   perhaps I can reason with this gentleman

see         perhaps one day you will need a favor

perhaps there will be a problem with your mechanics

perhaps there will be a strange flu going around the sales force

a capit?

mikey      take it easy      we don't need no consigliere to negotiate this

suppose we appeal to this nice man's better nature

look we want to make a deal

and then the salesman said

well then

make me an offer