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Nights on the Road MAG
November 17, 2013
Soft road noise and Led Zeppelin ballads
Lull my kid self into a quiet euphoria
Drifting in and out of empty half-dreams
Flying through pastoral paintings in the
back seat
10 p.m. highways and gas stations and diners
Romanticized by a sleepy skinny
nine-year-old
In Converse and thermal pajamas
Orange streetlights flitting across her cheek
© Alisa L., Tracy, CA
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