Car Wash<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Willie Nelson\u2019s \u201cOn The Road Again\u201d played as we drove along<\/p>\n
Grady Way to the Brown Bear Car Wash.<\/p>\n
My only memory of you & I spending any time alone is in a car,<\/p>\n
usually during a manic episode, but let\u2019s forget all that.<\/p>\n
I want to remember our last car ride together,<\/p>\n
you let me pick a CD from your collection of The Four Seasons,<\/p>\n
Favorites From The 50\u2019s & 60\u2019s, Classical Moments, and, somehow,<\/p>\n
The Best Of Willie Nelson.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I sat across from you for the first time in one year & four months.<\/p>\n
Your room is small, but neat in the place you now live.<\/p>\n
The caretakers are kind, even if the meat in the stew is too tough<\/p>\n
and you still want to come home.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve been preparing to lose you for years now, but there\u2019s nothing<\/p>\n
I can do other than turn up the radio with the windows down<\/p>\n
and drive nowhere, crying my eyes out, singing loudly,<\/p>\n
moving too fast for anyone to hear me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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