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    Vehicles

    By Thomas M. McDade

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    A forty-five poem collection concerned with driving and the driven. The vehicles involved are mostly used and battered Chevrolets and Fords but there are appearances by other brands including Volkswagon, Pontiac, Plymouth, Buick, Studebaker and Cadillac. A dump truck and a couple of big rigs live here too. Speed, hitchhikers, accidents, fraud, reckless and irresponsible motoring are not strangers.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThomas M. McDade
    Release dateSep 11, 2014
    ISBN9781311285546
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    Thomas M. McDade

    Thomas M. McDade is a seventy-seven-year-old former programmer/analyst residing in Fredericksburg, VA, previously, in CT & RI. He's married, has no kids, and no pets. McDade is a 1973 graduate of Fairfield University. He served two tours of duty in the U.S. Navy. tommmcd2000@yahoo.com

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      Vehicles - Thomas M. McDade

      Title Page and Licensing

      Vehicles

      By Thomas M. McDade

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2014 Thomas M. McDade

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This e-book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This e-book may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

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      Acknowledgements:

      Special thanks to the following publications that have published many of these poems: Blind Horse Review, Blue Collar Review, Chance Magazine, Connecticut River Review, Delinquent, Flat Tired, Jack Magazine, Lunarosity, Main Channel Voices, Mill Hunk Herald, Mississippi Crow, Moon, The, Newsletter Inago, Old City Cool, On the Road, Pawtucket Times Plastic Tower, Poetry Motel, Poets’ Podium, Recycled Quarterly, Sawmill, Shadow Fiction, Skyline Literary Magazine. Slab Magazine, Staplegun, Thrill and Swill: A Chapbook; Kendra Steiner Editions, Transcendent Visions, Yet Another Small Magazine, Zouch Magazine and Miscellany.

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      Prologue

      So I pulled the sun screen down and squinted and put the throttle to the floor. And kept on moving west. For West is where we all plan to go some day. It is where you go when the land gives out and the oldfield pines encroach. It is where you go when you get the letter saying: Flee, all is discovered. IT is where you go when you look down at the blade in your hand and see the blood on it. It is where you go when you are told that you are a bubble on the tide of empire. It is where you go when you hear that thar's gold in them-thar hills. It is where you go to grow up with the country. It is where you go to spend your old age. Or it is just where you go.

      ― Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men

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      Poems 1-15

      Vehicles

      Flappers

      Cruise Control

      Stick Shift

      Dashboard Dust

      Adventures of a ’56 Ford

      Hocus Pocus

      A Twist

      Missing Music

      The Architect’s Chevy

      The Limo

      Tires

      Split Second

      Station Car

      Fins

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      Poems 16-30

      The Outdoorsman

      Replacements

      First Shift at the Shore

      Analysis

      Old Rugged Cross

      Revenge

      The Cure

      Tweed & Slade

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