HEY PRETTY-DRIVE BY VERSION ( Poe and Mark Danielewski ) Mark: Keiri suggested we go for a drive in her new 2-door BMW coupe In the parking lot, we slipped into her bucket seats. Keiri took over from there. At nearly 90 miles per hour she zipped us up to that windy edge. Known to some as Mullholland, that sinuous road running the ridge of the Santa Monica mountains. Where she then proceeded to pump her vehicle in and out of turns. Sometimes dropping down to 50 miles per hour, only to immediately gun it back up to 90 again. Fast, slow, fast, fast slow. Sometime a wide turn sometimes a quick one she preferred the tighter ones. The sharp controlled jerks, swinging left to right before driving back to the right Only so she could do it all over again until after enough speed, and Enough wind, and more distance than I had been prepared to expect Taking me to parts of the city I rarely think of and never visit... I heard her say Poe: Hey pretty Don't you wanna take a ride with me? Through my world Do you get the gist of the song now? Hey pretty Don't you wanna kick and slide Through my world Mark: I can't remember the inane things I started babbling about then. I know it didn't really matter, she wasn't listening. She just yanked up on the emergency brake, dropped her seat back, and told me to lie on top of her On top of those leather pants of hers. Her hands immediately guiding mine over those soft, slightly oily folds Positioning my fingers on the shiny metal tab, small and round, like a tear Then murmuring a murmur so inaudible that even though I could feel her Lips tremble against my ear, she seemed far, far away 'Pinch it', she said, which I did, lightly, until she also said 'pull it,' Which I also did, gently parting the teeth, one at a time, down under And beneath, the longest unzipping of my life... Poe: Hey pretty Don't you wanna take a ride with me? Through my world Hey pretty Don't you wanna kick and slide Through my world Hey pretty My pretty baby Rock it through my world (through my world) Hey pretty (hey pretty) My pretty baby Mark: We never even kissed, or looked into each other's eyes, our lips just Trespassed on those inner labyrinths hidden deep within our ears, Filled them with the private music of wicked words Hers in many languages, mine in the off-color of my only tongue. Too bad dark languages (Pretty baby) rarely survive. |
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