From: Pepper Mouser
Somewhere a shark shudders as it instinctively senses its father will create no more.
Somewhere a dolphin makes clean lines in the dust on its fiberglass cheeks with its artistic tears.
Somewhere a shark bike can’t take the loss and drifts sideways in the sea of storage with x’es for eyes.
Somewhere a van whose fins once reached to the sky sits with tearful snot running from its ringed nose.
Somewhere a saintly bus with huge fins and a cadillac ass can’t roll with the weight of her grief that we all have in common.
Somewhere a ranger turned nash that lost an eye and didn’t die now wonders if it can go on without those strong hands on its wheel.
Somewhere a whale has gone to pieces and now despairs that it may never get it together to go too fast again.
Somewhere a hippo doesn’t wag its tail, and squeezes an electronic tear out of its winking eye.
Somewhere a fuzzy curve tailed cat car meows to its maiden and asks why.
But somewhere………. a veeeery unusual school bus reflects on itself, keeps its eyes on the prize… and rolls on.
And somewhere………. a whimsical missile truck waits, poised to stop that war yet.
And somewhere………. pristine fresh wrought fins adorn a puckered up Black Rock fish that can’t wait to get that first coat of playa dust….. forever.
And somewhere a kid looks at a book about Art Cars, consults Wikipedia, or like my Grandson did, surfs a Ripley’s page and does NOT believe it, but sees that it can be done…. anything can be done…. and with a certain, finitude……. finatically even.
And everywhere, people who knew him and people who knew of him, live out their lives richer for the experience of… Tom Kennedy.
I love you Tom and I know you loved me and that’s what means everything to me.