Poetry by Melodie Yvonne

Originally published online Feb 12, 2021 & in the collection I Do Heroin On The Train Line So You Don’t Have To: A Hitchhiker’s Guide To My Galaxie — available here

A Reprieve by Melodie Yvonne

Time for us to take another little trip down south
We gotta take a trip to get to trip
We’re making damn good time and we should get there ‘fore we’re down
There’s something freein’ ‘bout this big long stretch

Lucy ‘s ridin’ shotgun and it’s getting kinda late
But I’m pretty sure we’ll get there for the morn’
We done crossed the border and we’re almost to Mobile
But this time we’re not stoppin’ ‘til the Shores

The air is cool, but warm enough to take the T-tops out
The Gulf fog’s swallowin’ up the road ahead
Nights like these are pretty fuckin’ rare anymore
The nights that I forget I’m almost dead

I slide my hand just out the window tryin’ to touch the clouds
My fingertips are surfin’ on the breeze
The Pixies slidin’ in my ear have got me feelin’ fine
Their Wave of Mutilation sets me free

I could live here just like this for every second left
Bubble up this moment and be done
Pump the Volume on the sound and leave the world behind
Until my shadows and my light are one

I could live here just like this and never a regret
Never think about the things I lost
I could live here just like this and leave the world behind
Just me and Lucy and this Gulf Shores fog

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