Surrender, published in the now defunct 322 Review.

Listen :: Cheap Trick :: Surrender
Listen :: Cheap trick :: I Want You to Want Me

Surrender

This is the first

    ride home

      I ever enjoyed.

                We leave

over the George Washington Bridge

              drive through darkness

                                       surrounded            by lights

   the bridge    :    the city

             in the rearview mirror

he stares    through    the windshield

            his hair hangs in his eyes

  I   push   :   play

            Cheap Trick :   I Want You to Want Me

sit Indian-style

             back against the passenger door

        eyes closed

                       my hair thrashing        in the wind.

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