your little white car looks like a rental and it s stalled at the save on cause the starter s temperamental call your boyfriend it goes to voice mail leave a message baby get me please wait at the laundromat read a magazine tear out the page with the picture of some shoes you get impatient go to a cafe see a girl from your high school but you look away you take your coffee black the way your mother would one packet sweet n low one packet sugar your boyfriend texts you he s sorry that he s late he didn t hear the ring he s on his way on his way you take your cough drops you call them hoarse pills but they won t help anything if you keep smoking go to a movie go to the rodeo ride the train with the vagrants and watch the buildings fall away