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Back Roads

By Bailey Pilch

I like it when

The wind pulls at my hair

With her cold, rough hands

Through your open car window

While we fly down back roads

 

It’s dark

And your right headlight

Hasn’t even flickered

Since October

 

The windows go up,

She’s sending chills

Down your spine

 

One dim bulb

Should light the way

 

It doesn’t.

 

 

Bailey is sixteen years old and is currently a junior at Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School studying in the Writing and Publishing department.

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: Issue Ten

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