Manual

I'm learning how to drift race this weekend in San Diego, so I figured it might be good if I knew how to drive stick. It took me about 45 minutes, but I sort of got the hang of starting, shifting, and braking. I wrote a little poem about it.


Za!

From first to second, I pushed it.
Clutch, in, brake…wait, I’m sliding. Fuck.
Under the pale light of the nearly full moon,
I slid through gear after gear,
Revving the little car up, before accelerating past neutral into –
Stall.
Patience sat to my right, guiding me through each turn
And though there was some grinding,
It soon became
Fun.