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Las Cruces Memories

Sheryl L. Nelms

do you
remember

that Sunday morning in July
when you left me
alone on our
trailer

in the New Mexico desert
after they’d shut off our electricity

you said
you were going to
the Texaco station to buy a paper

I didn’t
see you again
until you came home dead
drunk at three that afternoon

remember how your car swayed
up that sandy road
and how mad
you got
at me

because I said
you shouldn’t be driving

remember how you did dusty doughnuts
in our barren yard
around me
trying to
hit
me with the Cavalier

do you know how mad I was
how scared I was

do you remember anything of that day?

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