your little white car looks like a rental   and it's stalled at the sav-on coz the starter's temperamental   call your boyfriend it goes to voice mail   leave a message baby get me please       wait at the laundromat read a magazine   tear out the page with the picture of some shoes   you get impatient go to a cafe   see a girl from your high school but you look away       you take your coffee black the way your mother would   one packet sweet n low one packet sugar   your boyfriend texts you he's sorry that he's late   he didn't hear the ring he's on his way      you take your cough drops you call them hoarse pills   but they won't help anything if you keep smoking   go to a movie go to the rodeo   ride the train with the vagrants and watch the buildings fall away