The funny thing about driving your car off a cliff
I bet you’re still hitting those damn brakes.
No matter how messed up it is
You’re programmed to hang onto it.
You know that actor dude who OD’d to kill himself:
the one who was supposedly screwing the Olsen twin?
I bet he ended up dying with one hand on 911,
the other one jammed down his skinny throat.
Even Moose, our soccer team’s answer to God,
When he finally dumped his cheating girlfriend
He ended up sitting outside her house
with a hard on smoking indo;
His dad’s shotgun riding shotgun
in a broken down sedan.
But, he didn’t do anything.
He just set there in the fog
Under some flickering street light
Listening to Muse.
Hard to let go.
Hard to release the brake.
Just as hard to hit the gas.
Parents tell you to coast.
Were they really ever 15?
No matter how messed up it is
You’re programmed to hang onto it.
You know that actor dude who OD’d to kill himself:
the one who was supposedly screwing the Olsen twin?
I bet he ended up dying with one hand on 911,
the other one jammed down his skinny throat.
Even Moose, our soccer team’s answer to God,
When he finally dumped his cheating girlfriend
He ended up sitting outside her house
with a hard on smoking indo;
His dad’s shotgun riding shotgun
in a broken down sedan.
But, he didn’t do anything.
He just set there in the fog
Under some flickering street light
Listening to Muse.
Hard to let go.
Hard to release the brake.
Just as hard to hit the gas.
Parents tell you to coast.
Were they really ever 15?
Everything you did this week was terrific! What I loved about this piece was its sense of danger, of risk, which is so very 15. The details, the images - they all so rich here. All so specific and compelling. Absolutely brilliant!
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