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edit- made a couple tiny changes.

 

For Cody

 

Cody you look for your road

like a fat girl looks for love

forgetting to look in the mirror

 

I know what it is

to plan for an early morning

ride out.

Goodbyes to the guys

the night before.

A slow drive past

the old haunts.

Look, it's the house

that belongs to the old man

you don't know but wave to

every day.

His kid's a delinquent.

everyone goes to him for pot.

He leans against his father

and his fence on his bike

every afternoon, waiting.

 

I know the night before.

everything is a possible last.

Last time brushing your teeth

at night in THAT sink.

Last time peeking in

on your parents good night.

Last time sitting

on that toilet with something to read.

 

All of a sudden, everything

in the house is newly discovered.

Was the ceiling in the den

really a white different than the wall?

The dog. When did the dog die?

 

There are 2 pictures of you

in the living room.

Middle school and high school.

New fool and older fool.

When did you start growing

facial hair?

Prom pictures.

I went to prom with her?

She's got 3 kids now.

 

In the morning when you step

out, your nervous breath catching

that last bit of cold dying winter

air, your memory it

will be the sun

rising on the first day

of the rest of your life

or something like that.

The memory of the road

will be a long noise of your tires

pressing on, east, east, east.

 

Remember when you got the car keys

for the first time

and they let you go alone?

One big step out the front door.

A hop into the seat

air wheezing out of the old cushion.

A good song on the radio.

Nowhere to go but

anywhere but here.

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