the glow

there is the cool air coming in the passenger window, the sun setting over all that grass, so many kinds, growing on the side of I-35. i am wearing a cotton dress, light green and white, one of the ones from asos. the sun is in our eyes but we are headed southwest, headed toward freedom, or realization, or just another saturday night.

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i don't know what the hell my problem is but maybe you just need to make some dumb mistakes to stumble into something good. maybe this car ride is just the the natural result of all that.

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and hours later, we are heading northward. you hate driving and you're the kind of tired that makes me laugh. when i look at you yawning, i don't know why but i'm just happy i'm there to see that, and that's brutally honest and that's it. that's totally it.

i'm so out of league on this one, so totally out of my league. but i hold the steering wheel while you take a drink of water and i'll screw the cap back on afterward for you. i like the way you look when you're tired, like you're passing out of this world and into some other one i can't see.