DEPRESSION KIDS
Cotton blond Dean James so cool
Anytime hair "a little messed", he throws
head back and every strand falls back
in place like it'd just been combed
Dean's dad owns two postwar model cars,
motor boat on trailer and power mower
Best Bermuda lawn on block
No goddamned crab grass allowed!
Dean gets to drive shinin' white
’49 Ford any time he wants
Old man don't give a shit son's
too young for a driver’s license
Dean and Natalie crazy about each other
He likes to drive her to Springlake
amusement park and thrill the hell
out of her on roller coaster rides
One spring morning
Dean and Natalie feel school
day too beautiful to waste
on boring eighth grade classes
Speed limit sign says 65
but Henry Ford
don't make Model T's no more
FASTER! FASTER!
75 Miles per hour
Depression...World War II behind
Good times rollin' like Oklahoma hills
FASTER! FASTER!
85-90...Washita River Bridge
speedin’ toward them
Let's see whatya got, hot mama!
It's a great day to die in the Indian State
First day of spring
Midwest City, Oklahoma
1950
Blue skies
White puffy clouds
Cool breezes
Green grass
Barefoot
Crack of bat
Thud of baseball caught in glove
Young man in sunglasses revs up V6 of
Chevy convertible as it roars past
Teen beauty queens walking in shorts
Chigger bites
Itch
Itch
Itch
Scratch
Scratch
Scratch
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