Without Courtesy

I rode the top of my mother’s muscle
car stretched out toward Montauk. I drove

fast & dangerous. I ate daddy long
legs that summer. My teeth turned to ink


pooling in the gums. Anyone could have written it.
Dipped into me. Anyone did. But I wasn’t anyone.
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