Wheel Weights
With slopes like ours tractor wheels
were belled
out wide to purchase hill; steer-axle
meccanoed
maximum stretch. Front rims held
hundredweights.
Wheels in traction were tanked
two-thirds full
of critical-mass water, that way the weight
kept low,
sloshed to ring the bottom note. If you
got a flat
you wet yourself. If you sped you
flywheeled
that centrifuge of water out into the wits
of control.
Wayne David Knoll © 1997
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