January’s Yellow School Bus #8

January’s Yellow School Bus #8

Lethargic yellow school bus through slush is lumbering.

Thirty tired heads bob with the rigid frame’s trundling.

As the bus finally slows, the students all nose

Down, down, down jerking up with icy frowns.

Thirty heads plop back against plastic seats

Thirty students stomp sixty cold feet.

The driver levers out the red hexagon

To alert anxious drivers nosing around.

With red lights winking, only a fool could be thinking

Of trying to pass that lumbering mass.

In January following a yellow bus is no place to be found.

Better bobbing to sleep with warm toasty feet at home and snow bound.