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Taking the farm car.(Fictional Work)
TAKING THE FARM CAR
There's luck in being alive. Ravenous for speed, born determined to drive,
my younger brother would grin and kid me into another quick forbidden spin.
Almost standing, he'd peer over the steering wheel. Together we changed gear.
Not that gear changes mattered on the flat and lonely roads we hungered for. The battered
bonnet shook. Its chrome spine was a silver arrow racing away from home.
Windows down, we heard the shocked fence posts whisper their indecipherable word,
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