Her backbone is a long stretch of American western highway I trace my fingers eastbound/westbound across the slats of her ribs pressed against the skin ready to pop She left southside Midlothian Virginia as soon as she was old enough to make her own bad decisions sick of being looked at eyes grading like the big fat red D's stamped on her math homework She left by foot bus plain train that grey jetta with the scratch down the passenger side from where she parked too close to that ugly Subaru she left me but she needed to breathe some air that wasn't stale with mediocre pretension and the frat house odor of stale beer and sawdust so run wild fly free may your lips utter cliches without fear of derision go make your life an incredible story beautiful ugly hard to look at can't look away make your life a story and I'll record it