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[email protected] 5 Life In Poetry Riding Clutch Can’t Always Be Avoided BY TOM AND RAY MAGLIOZZI start using your clutch pedal to do light- Poet Analyzes Life King Features Syndicate weight, high-rep leg exercises. TOM: So Dad’s being a little over-zealous Dear Tom and Ray: here. Plus, sometimes you HAVE to push in My dad had a rule when we were growing the clutch when you’re taking a corner. Let’s Through Kite Flying up: “You can’t drive any car until you learn to say you’re in second gear and you’re making drive a stick shift.” I have two brothers who a left turn at a traffic light. He wants you to BY TED KOOSER had no problems learning, but boy did I give just stay in second and then accelerate out of U.S. POET LAUREATE my dad a run for his money on that one. I just the turn. had a heck of a time getting the feel for it, al- RAY: But what if leaving it in second gear This kite-flying poem caught me right up and sent me flying as though it didn’t help to have him screaming makes you go too fast through the turn? Or if soon as Robert Gibb described those dimestore kites furled tighter “CLUTCH! CLUTCH!” and turning red while traffic in front of you slows down? Then the than umbrellas, a perfect image. Gibb lives in Pennsylvania.