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Mike White

NASCAR

Not rolling in liquid fire
or pulled apart by physics.
Not between commercials.

But the way an old dog
half-blind
noses around and around

some quiet
apple-scented
chosen ground.

–from Rattle #32, Winter 2009

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§ One Response to “Nascar” by Mike White

• Tim Young says:

  December 12, 2010 at 6:40 pm

  Yes. I’m looking for not quite such a violent death.

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