Day 96 prompt: Vegetable

on long car rides
clever mama
occupied her
restless passenger
with mind games

discovering the alphabet
on road signs and billboards
spying license plates
from all fifty states
packing imaginary suitcases
in ABC order
solving the mystery again and again:
is it animal, vegetable or mineral?

that little traveling girl
asked her mama
a million questions
but never once
“Are we there yet?”