Steel Symbols

Published January 18th, 2007

The old blue Commodore parked casually on the grass in the back yard. 

The lackluster patina of corrosion oozing from every rusty pore. 

Steel viscera exposed for examination of boys who clasp to their chests 

not spanner and wrench, but that ubiquitous symbol of manhood - 

the stubby cooler wrapped lovingly around their “Stubby’! They talk 

And drink  Tinkering with the car and their place in the world 

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