The Paris Review (Digital)

The Paris Review (Digital)

1 Issue, Winter 2024 (250)

Two Poems

The Car I practiced driving stick on Ronnie’s car.Ronnie owned a shopand had a beater he loaned out.His wife could take it outwhen she was drinking. Or was itwhen she wasn’t. No— The first time we made a planfor me to drive the car,she’d driven it the night before, but drank too muchand left it at her friend’s,responsibly— There was no rule between them. I could drive, had driven stick in high school.I was practicingso I could drive in Italy. I could drive—it’s just that Chris was betterand he liked it more, so it was oftenChris who drove,but Chris wouldn’t be with mein Italy. Chris was better, I believed, than anyone,but couldn’t be with me,eventually. I want to takeresponsibility, to say I made it hard—I only made it hard for…
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