Music Makes Me Speed

Happy Together comes on the radio. I can handle this; I try hard to keep my car under seventy. Now it’s Cher. She is singing Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves. I push the pedal to the medal, I am twenty-one again. Tina comes on. She is singing Proud Mary. I dare not look at the speedometer. I am breaking the sound barrier. Forgetting I am a grandmother Forgetting I am old.