Astronaut

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Astronaut

Screeeetch shabooommmm,
forty feet of blackest rubber
off the line, fat slicks smoking
hiissscheechweeee, clutch
in a bind, ooooohggggichee;
first gear hairy, eemmmmmmnnn,
second gear smoother,
mmmmmmmmeeeeeeee,
third gear pulsating strong,
chuggamowwwoww,
pounding on your ass!

1000 horses straining,
wweeeeeeeeehahahaaa,
guts galore under the floor;
strapped in tight, uuuwhumpp,
next to the door, with the
steering wheel bending,
eeeerrrruummppp,
chrome mags a blur,
thunder blasting in your face,
kkaaaboooommmozza, pressing
your red tinted goggles into
your bulging eyes, dammmmmn,
what a fuuuucckking race!

Engine screeeeaamming like
a rhodesian ridgeback in heat,
mmmmmmmmmmmmeeeeeeee,
approaching redline just before
the last speed shift entering
the blessed straightaway,
gggaasssccuuuuummmmmm,
bolting past 207 like a rogue soul
turned black and mean, as a suction
gggrrroooosscchhmeeeee
has got you by the flattened nose
and all feeling has fled from your toes when
BBBBBAAANNNNGGG, there goes
your right front tire, and your engine
is completely on fire, wwhhoooooshma,

so you let go of the wheel
and cover your face, to make preparation
for your journey through space--
oooohhhhhmmmmmm.

Glenn Buttkus

January 2012

Listed as number 9 over on dVerse Poets-Onomoto Poetics

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