You Can Take It To Places

#You Can Take It To Places

 You can take it to places, like
 the backseat of an ‘82 Chevy Citation.
 there was a service manual with
 several thumbed down pages
 reeking of gasoline, stale urine,
 the varnish of a cement-floor life.
 
 but you forgot it in parade floats with
 prom kings and hand-rolled blunts.
 what is privilege? the steel-frame certainty
 of never slut, never threat, never
 some pathological pervert on the prowl,
 never a smear on the I-90 offramp,
 hands unharmed and raised
 fearful up to a gravel sky.
 
 make no mistake, the doubter's
 benefit is for others less other,
 less browngay than he, less
 lesser than your plastocine am, and
 be happy with it; the whitewall
 tires, the familiar feminine curves.
 you can take it to places.  
 it doesn't mind.

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