Thursday, June 28, 2007


I saw one of these on U.S. 19 today as I drove home trying to outrun the sunset. It pulled up next to me at a red light and I knew what it was just by the sound of it and the silhouette in my periphery. So I closed my eyes and heard David Bowie and Freddie Mercury howling about pressure and it was 1987 and we were driving home late at night, the windows down and the smell of cigarettes wafting through the humid air and I wanted to floor it and crank up the stereo as loud as it would go so that David and Freddie were screaming so loudly the words punched through my chest and out through the back of my seat then through the back of the car and out into the evening, swirling skyward...
Why - why - why ?
Love love love love love
Insanity laughs
under pressure we're cracking
Can't we give ourselves one more chance
Why can't we give love that one more chance
Why can't we give love give love give love give love give love give love give love give love give love
'Cause love's such an old fashioned word
And love dares you to care for
The people on the edge of the night
And loves dares you to change our way of
Caring about ourselves
This is our last dance
This is our last dance
This is ourselves
Under pressure
Under pressure
Pressure

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

read this last night. later got in my car, flipped on the xm radio and guess what was playing...

i love those serendipitous moments...

-A

ellipsis said...

Hey girl with the creamsicle hair--would you effin' call me already?

Miss ya!

Love,
ell

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