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Manual Queen SAFE
1. Manual Queen
With skewed alignment
and self-resentment,
I’m behind, hailing the Manual Queen,
her heart’s a stick shift gear eaten by speed.
She is the speed bump betwixt my highway.
I’m off balance, veering into her left lane.
She’s a mile ahead of me, burning black tar,
or laying on the horn, an engine uproar.
No fear in the face of oncoming traffic,
passing me with pinstripe graphics.
Head-to-head, caught in a losing race,
no matter, I can taste her first place.
She hung me in her rearview mirror
and there I swung, a free fall shiver.
She’s always the winner in the end,
her own kind of beneficial friend.
Perfume of grease and leather,
Dark hair light as a feather.
I was her faithful pendulum,
but now I’m faded from the sun,
a tassel that’s lost all her color,
and she the gravel beneath my tire,
it’s all a sliding sense of friction
as I tear apart from her direction.
Never race the Manual Queen,
for all you’ll see is red and green.