BUS PHILOSO-FEE   

if you're in your immature teens
taking a bus
is something that you do naturally

if you're in your swinging twenties
taking a bus
is your standing duty

if you're in your productive thirties
taking a bus
perhaps, is one way to save money?

if you're in your busy forties
taking a bus
shouldn't be your transportation philosophy

if you're in your happy fifties
taking a bus
is making your hands dirty

if you're in your relaxing sixties
taking a bus
should no longer be your duties

if you're in your faded seventies
taking a bus
maybe, you're trying to sight see

if you're in your swinging eighties
taking a bus
should no longer be your responsibilities

if you're in your precious nineties
taking a bus
maybe, you have no chance to see!

Lin Hsin Hsin
April 3, 1993

first published in p.187 Sunny Side Up, 1994