Tourist Trapp

The Hills Are Alive

By: Charles Giuliano - Dec 20, 2017

Tourist Trapp

Cold, clean and crisp
Bright sunny day
Winter wonderland
Sunday drive
Week in Vermont
Famous Trapp Family Lodge
Alpine kitsch
Huge and corporate
Not exactly Edelweiss
Hardly Sound of Music
More like the cash register
Clanging away
Where the rich play
Fun on the slopes with
Visa, MasterCard and
American Express
Place of excess
Viewing the formal dining room
Severe and austere
Upscale schnitzel
Severs in dirndls
Frosty smiles
Downhill to
Bierhalle for lunch
She loved the ginger ale
Best ever Astrid said
For me instead
Ale but no ginger
Weak and so pale
Frozen a watery winter brew
One of several
Touted as seasonal quaff
Cut the crapp
Wheat or chaff
Then the shop
Full of crap
Souveniers of Trapp
Hoodies and trinkets
Coasters and key rings
Reminders of refugees
Band on the run
Making it big
In corporate tourism