2 fast 2 furious - Kitty Shah

sometimes some slant summer nights you gotta want it fast

and loose, big league chew stretched over quick-moving lips

like butter over bread and pink denim slung low on your hips,

blue neon bright under your wheels, rushing to the bar before last

call just to make that late-night chance for love before it’s past.

love—or else something loud, maybe, loud enough at least to eclipse

all that noise rushing through your open windows when your hair whips

back and you smash hard on the brakes to stop that fall into the vast

of the sky. that’s when you want a friend—someone cool and

easy in the passenger seat, cool like the soft ocean spray

in your eyes, easy like dreaming at noon, laid out on your side

tracing shapes from the clouds above in the broke-down sand.

want that under the sun. walk it cool and easy in the day

and at night, baby, you’ll be all charged up for that fast, loose ride!

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Kitty Shah is a sophomore English major at UAlbany. Her poetry often uses pop culture imagery to ground ethereal emotion in the here and now of everyday life.