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Danielle White 


Riding Shotgun  


After a ten day separation

Caused by family debts and cowboy dues

We’re riding together again

It’s just so easy

Me being helpless

And you having nothing better to do

You rescued me from the farm  


We’re doing all of the things we can possibly do

To make way for a premature exit  


My role is silent

Caught between

The active force of indulger

And the passive pastimes of post-adolescence

We’ve got a lot to learn

And we’re riddled with bad habits we can pass off to each other 


Driving aimlessly around

Your Daddy’s badge hanging over us

An invisible sheath

A pistol holder with no morals

We stuff drugs up our noses

With crooked money

And smile with dirty teeth

Misery suspended between us

Like a shared secret

Unweaving in the face of the rising sun