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    A World Without Seat Belts
    A World Without Seat Belts
    A World Without Seat Belts
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    A World Without Seat Belts

    By Kelly Morgan

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    New & Selected Poems by Kelly Morgan

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKelly Morgan
    Release dateDec 10, 2011
    ISBN9781466026988
    A World Without Seat Belts
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    Kelly Morgan

    Author Kelly J Morgan has entered the literary world with a novel that will trigger conversations, debates, and intellectual observations for years to come. She writes like a seasoned veteran and has elevated the expectations of debut works. She is here to slay.You can listen to Kelly on her podcast, That's Some Crazy Shit.Kelly lives in Aurora, CO with her family, dog and cat.

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      A World Without Seat Belts - Kelly Morgan

      There was Highway 51,

      two paved lanes

      over flat farmland

      coming and going

      going and coming

      in either direction,

      everything similar.

      Down the center

      a hypnotic yellow line

      reached toward

      what appeared

      to be my future.

      The greatest danger

      I reminded myself

      more than once

      would be to fall asleep

      before reaching some place else.

      Down the road,

      always another road.

      Some had more lanes.

      And the scenery changed

      as the future slipped

      behind the wheels.

      Coming and going.

      Going and coming.

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      Barbara and Bob Morgan and me.

      First Kiss

      Before the tourist season,

      before the tourists drove up from Chicago

      in their Chevrolets, Corvairs

      and Cadillac Coup de Villes;

      when the lilacs were still in bloom

      Mike Zookowski, a local boy,

      who rode a Stingray bike with a banana seat

      asked my sister to wait outside

      the thick dark bushes.

      Time for my first lesson in kissing.

      On the ground there were broken beer bottles

      and I couldn’t stop giggling.

      He had to tell me to close my eyes

      and when his mouth reached for mine

      our teeth bumped, our lips smacked.

      It was altogether too sloppy. And yet!

      And yet, the lush branches

      of the lilac bushes with their armfuls

      of butterfly blossoms generously

      lent us their bouquet, their light

      lavender powdered scent

      a fresh breath of innocence.

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