Ode to Milan Dragway by Sue Blair -------------------- Lair of the white trash monster trucks crushing stock cars yum, cheese on a stick weak axle groaning long black skid, will it end at weak retaining wall? unsuspecting crowd cruel decapitating tire spins its lethal arc radial debris hurled two hundred miles per hour weilds steel-belted death duck now bobby joe! beer-soaked reaction too slow get the spatula father of five gone my lawyer will contact you farewell welfare check lay out the corpse please in b.o.-soaked leather vest he reeks as in life belly button peeks T-shirt straining to cover expansive beer gut the cold grave bears life radial tire planter sports red gas station rose