Short Speedway Poems

*****I've decided to repost some older poems and provide some background and poetics, or my mindset of why I wrote these poems or perhaps what inspired me to write some of them. Many of these older poems were overlooked or were lost in the speedway of poetry submissions here. For new Soupers or new readers it might be a welcomed 'new' read as well, or long time Supers who missed some of these works*****...

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Every time you put that bottle to your lips
I think of what might happen,
but i don't wanna fight with you
and you have no clue how i feel
but its not a big deal
only that i could loose you,
but you refuse to listen to what i say
and you drive on those roads like its a speedway
at any second something could happen
it frightens me, 
the thought of losing you,
you just don't understand
things like this are never planned....

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Premiered at Midland Motor Speedway, Odessa, TX – 6/26/1998
	               
ACT 1

Das Lied für Alma
Still Life Instrumental
First Nights
Pain Hurts
Violet
Dancing with the Blues
The Reckoning
No One’s Going Home 

ACT 2

Brickyard Informal
Beneath the Wheel
Eyes of a Miner
Here She Was
Halfway to My Knees
The Last Time We Made Love

ACT 3

I Quit
Never Be Too Far Away 
Yesterday’s Coffee
Stale Green Light...

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They never made Charlie work for anything, no doubt.
He never did a chore or helped his parents out.
When he reached sixteen, he wanted a Porsche.
They gave him one the day his mom got a dishwasher, a Borsche.

Charlie rode it around faster than a speedway racecar.
Thought he was all that and more, a spoilt basketball star.
Wrecked it in a week, and complained he wanted another.
Let’s not spoil our other boys, suggested Charley’s mother....

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not a speedway
And yet they are racing
at a hundred miles or more
Down Interstate 635 in Kansas City

I hear them way before I realize what they are
Two race cars. One orange and green
The other purple and black, low and fast.

They are racing on both sides of me.
Sounding like whirring humming bees.
They tear past

I figure they will kill someone without dog ears
Tail lights in three lanes light up
I slow down, expecting to see body parts....

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