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    Poetry: Put Your Pedal To The Metal and Drive Said Pete

    Saturday, May 25, 2019

    By

    Rick White

     

     

    Put your pedal to the metal and drive said Pete
    Put your pedal to the metal and drive
    Look at the back of your head said Pete, oh wait you can’t
    only through a mirror or a photo
    which means your reality is incomplete
    merely a subjective experience
    Put your pedal to the metal and drive said Pete
    Pull your petal to your middle and thrive
    Believe in imaginary conceits said Pete, subscribe to binary concepts
    Be a part of a collective consciousness, that’s how we all get by
    Like my faith in God and my love for my Other?
    No. That shit’ll get you killed said Pete, just refer to any literature
    in fact no don’t
    Put your pedal to the metal and drive said Pete
    Put your pen to the margin and derive
    Work for an arbitrary number of days said Pete, work for an angry number of years
    Arbitrary numbers will appear on your screen, then vanish like cyphers in to the code
    That’s how we measure your worth said Pete
    That’s the only God you need know
    Picture yourself in the future said Pete
    once you’ve unlocked the door to your potential
    Swimming in a vast ocean somehow opened up from nowhere
    drowning under heavy drifts of snow
    Put your pedal to the metal and drive said Pete
    Push your peril to the many outside
    Do with your body what you will said Pete, just don’t call it what it is when we say what it isn’t
    Stuff your head in to a photograph and stare at the back of it
    Come here often?
    tell your mom i said hi
    Put your pedal to the metal and drive said Pete
    Put a bullet in your temple and die

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Rick White is a writer of many odd things from Manchester UK. Rick has previously had work published in Storgy, Soft Cartel and Vice Magazine among others. Rick is 34 years old and lives with his wife Sarah and their small furry overlord, a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel named Harry. His Twitter handle is @ricketywhite

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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