Tuesday, February 18, 2025

I'm sorry if that
thing last night
ABOUT 
my dad
was
CONFUSING 

my dad had an el camino*

*that's one of those car trucks-- they were still making them then--  his wasn't new, but it wasn't like vintage or anything 

he CALLED it 
the LUXURY-mobile
it wasn't 
PARTICULARLY luxurious 

at least in terms of 
BEING 
nice, clean, in noticably crisp condition 

BUT 
it WAS a nice car

MEMORIAL drive
is the long wind-y through the 
FORRESTED environs
of the
NUVO riche*

*I figured you know what I'm talking about I just spelled it faster

the old money
lives in river oaks 

my dad liked to drive memorial
FREEWAY 
MIGHT 
be FASTER 
or it might not

I think he listened to 
TOP 40 
AM I think 

we always listened to Kasey Kasum (sp?)
on the weekends 

MIGHT have been
BELL'S SCOTCH
I'm possibly 
CONFLATING multiple days

AND
I THOUGHT 
this song was one of the ones he loved
BUT 
the TIMING is such

MAYBE 
it wasn't 
MAYBE 
he was telling me then

I didn't put
THAT 
together 
UNTIL 
just NOW 

BUT 
there's that really beautiful song
with the girl named
LUCILLE 
&
every time I hear it

a CHORD
RESONATES 
recognition 

to the name
which
of course 
MAY or may NOT 
BE
supposed to have 
ANYTHING 
to do with
ME

I ALWAYS feel like it DOES 

it's like 
the color
GREEN

it travels
BACK
& FORTH
in TIME