Cheap Thrills

The doctor,

the entrepreneur,

the engineer,

and the ghost

sit in a rented red Fiat

endlessly driving

from Nice

to the winding bends

of the Alps.

Cheap Thrills

from cheap speakers

echoes in the crisp mountain air,

but our ears register only

the sound of youthful invincibility

and infinite potential.

Every year

I find myself pulled back

into that tiny car in my memory

and I think,

It must have been a hot summer,

because the snow melted

and formed this tear in my eye.


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