RESTORATION  

Let me restore you
Buffing chrome fibreglass steel
Licking off dust of endless days that clings to your topcoat

My tongue slipping
sliding
around the edge of your rims

I am upward inside outbound
Down down down

blind spot

grease nipples

male/female

when I cling to you
I seep under rivets and quarterpanels
Corroding and corrupting

I want to be rocked on your leaf springs
Like a 4-wheel in back country

A deer in the headlights
Only you are caught in mine

I want to climb your chassis
Like a virgin jungle gym
In a brand-new playground

Bounce in your leather-bound backseat
Like I'm in a jolly jumper made for big girls

You are downward outside
Inbound
Up up up

Drivin' stick
But who's hands are really behind the wheel?

© 2006 Dawn Carter