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She loved me with her car, this girl who wasn't a girl, who was a mountain in the guise of a girl. Hips swinging, lips an alluring red O of laughter, she shut the door behind me and drove me across the States with those baby shoes swinging by their laces from the rear-view.
"You got a kid?" I asked, and she just cranked up the music. Cher crooned I Got You, Babe over the snowy radio.
She didn't have a kid. She'd never had a kid. She had an ex who I met at a Minnesota truck stop. "Watch out for earthquakes," warned the ex, bending her head close to mine, our hair coming together in a curtain of confidentiality. I told her that in Minnesota, I wasn't worried.
The girl had hands like foothills grounding the wayward steering wheel to the road. They never quavered—steady like she was. When we kissed, she held me up, though she was a head shorter than I.
I trembled at the knees. She trembled at the tires.
We hit a storm in the Heartlands. Wind buffeted the car and set the baby shoes dancing until she pulled off the road, parked in a soy field. We waited for it to pass. I watched the storm, and she watched those baby shoes jump. "How'd you like to go to Canada?" she asked. In all her travels, she'd never been to Canada.
We stopped at the border and spent a night in a motel so close we could see over. The cold crept under the window and lay thick as fog on the floor. Between sex and shots of whisky, she gave me her baby shoes, and we slept like crossed fingers while Canada froze over across the street.
In the morning she was gone. One of the shoes stood still on the pillow, and I imagined the other running under that mirror.
"You got a kid?" I asked, and she just cranked up the music. Cher crooned I Got You, Babe over the snowy radio.
She didn't have a kid. She'd never had a kid. She had an ex who I met at a Minnesota truck stop. "Watch out for earthquakes," warned the ex, bending her head close to mine, our hair coming together in a curtain of confidentiality. I told her that in Minnesota, I wasn't worried.
The girl had hands like foothills grounding the wayward steering wheel to the road. They never quavered—steady like she was. When we kissed, she held me up, though she was a head shorter than I.
I trembled at the knees. She trembled at the tires.
We hit a storm in the Heartlands. Wind buffeted the car and set the baby shoes dancing until she pulled off the road, parked in a soy field. We waited for it to pass. I watched the storm, and she watched those baby shoes jump. "How'd you like to go to Canada?" she asked. In all her travels, she'd never been to Canada.
We stopped at the border and spent a night in a motel so close we could see over. The cold crept under the window and lay thick as fog on the floor. Between sex and shots of whisky, she gave me her baby shoes, and we slept like crossed fingers while Canada froze over across the street.
In the morning she was gone. One of the shoes stood still on the pillow, and I imagined the other running under that mirror.
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Literature
Waiting
If I were to count the ones before,
I'd need to use four walls,
Each little mark, a flame of life,
Dropped like a leaf in fall.
We're all aware, we can't prepare,
We know what's 'round the bend,
We wake and smile even if we know,
Some won't make it to this day's end.
Waiting, waiting, agony,
Like toys on store display,
I look at all of you and think,
'Will this be your last day?'
Look there, a tear.
My reflection cries.
It's just not fair, just sitting here,
Waiting for the end of our lives.
Literature
Waiting and Wanting
I look and stare, wonder and ponder
Why are you not here?
I look beyond the valley to see what isn't there
I look and stare and see what isn't there
When are you coming home, I ask?
Never? I ask
Sometime soon I commit
I wait on hill, waiting for you
To come home back to me
Where are you?
"Waiting and Wanting"
Literature
Unease
The world will face its early end
When scorn becomes the new trend
The remaining hope is our sense
Only we can save the world from its absence
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