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Cold Water

BY MADELINE CONWAY

Published March 9, 2010

Hysterics are for
the worst kind
of realizations.

Like,
I live
in a house that God built
for people to be alone.

Good thing
my father left me
something more useful than money:

a head-
no, a heart-
for the road.

Because I drove
25 blocks

blurry-eyed,
screaming into the night,

foot off the pedal,
coasting
on a riptide.