“NASCAR Lines” by Dan Grossman

Unsplash image: Frank Albrecht @shotaspot

NASCAR Lines

While digging the foundations for the new cities
of the plain our archeologists found 
the broken ribbons of asphalt leading 

in all directions. Humanoids used these roads
to race to the urban centers — where the god-kings
endowed the faithful with material reward.

Images of the fastest among them survive
on what were called, in the language of the day,
“Pepsi machines.”  And the portraits

of car drivers with Pepsi bottles pointing out
from their crotches (as the carbonated aphrodisiac
explodes outward) is evidence of phallic fixation.

The females dressed mainly dressed in synthetics
while preparing the evening meals and sacraments.
This is the framework, we believe, in which

the penis, unsheathed from no exoskeleton,
(in marked contrast with us insectoid-bipeds)
was inserted into the vessel of continuity.