door snaps open
pizza bag enters first
drops to the passenger seat
as my bum simulataneously
slides into the driver's
left foot disengages clutch
left hand flips power switch
right hand releases from
pizza bag handle, presses shiny
button to the right of steering column
'VROOMPop-Pop-gargle'
she lives.
Alexis lives
for me and I for her.
I hold her in my palms
feel the rhythm of her
four cylinder heart
pulsing faster and louder
as I fuel her appetite
as she breathes oxygen
we live.
We race
against the time
for the heat of the pizza
escapes fast
We race
against anyone who will
join our mad parade
of burnouts
redline shifts
weaving traffic
like a straw
we time lights
memorize exactly when they change
so we don't have to look at them
we focus on the gaps
left by lazy drivers
who have no sense of the
conservation of motion or
the speed of other drivers.
Alexis and I
have this down to a
science.
Colin and Co.
