wen our column advanced, and we
saw what we'd done, we were suere that
we could never tell the
folks back home, say my father to me
i had just turned sixteen, and we were
walking from my school to his
apartment alone and he said, "you'd
think the world you're in would always
remain, but some worlds can just
disappear. some world you enter just
for seconds at a time, and some last
until you're forgiven" when my mother
and me take the drive into town , i can't
tell if she's lost in thought or lost where
we are. she turns the radio to 92 star
where ronnie misap sings what he
would not have missed it for, and she
says, "what do you think you're gonna
do with you life?" and i say, "you 've
got to teach me to drive" she just laughs at
that and musses my hair, and
says "kid, you're lucky to be alive"