Cinquain #25

Other than

The Datsun (how old

Am I?) my step-mom generously loaned

On college weekends to coach my step-brother

On jazz

While I

Drove him to his

Weird father’s house (turned out not

So weird as I read his books on

TAROT left

Behind and

They informed my life)

Not counting that, my first car

Was a red box with black and white

Seats, and

In the

1990s felt like adulthood

Until I parked on a side

Street in Beverly Hills and got into my

Car only

It belonged

To someone else and

I realized there were a lot

Of us Red VW Foxes around and I

Wanted more