1. Patty’s Charcoal Drive-in
By: Barbara Cooker
Jillian Clark
AP Lit

2. FIRST JOB banquet White bowling shirt bouncing pony tail
red
lipstick
White
bowling
shirt
overflowing tray
I present each
as if it were a
banquet
tight black shorts

3. 16
temporary
this ’s as as the summer sun
job
college -bound

4. LIFE It’s the of my BOUNDARIES BOUNDARIES BOUNDARIES B B O O U U N N D

5. After the first few nights…
easily.
work goes

6. The lure of drifts through the g r e a s e
THICK NIGHT AIR

7. Patty’s Charcoal Drive-in
And it’s at
always summer
Patty’s Charcoal Drive-in

8. RED CONVERTIBLES, pull up next to
Carloads of
blonde and tan girls
pull up next to
boys in black tee shirts with s l i c k hair.
RED CONVERTIBLES,

9. Everyone knows what they want.

10. I for tips.
hope s t a r s.
flung carelessly as the

11. Each night repeats itself.

12. light dark The pours down, sticky as Coke.
Towards 10 P.M., traffic dwindles.
dark
The pours down, sticky as Coke.
light
but the from the kitchen gleams like a beacon.

13. (I read that in a Doris Lessing book)
A breeze comes up, chasing papers in the far corners of the darkened lot,
as if suddenly a cold wind had started to blow straight at me
from the future-
(I read that in a Doris Lessing book)

14. moon this is enough. but right now, purse fat with tips, the
sitting like a cheeseburger on a flat black grill,
moon
this is enough.

15. Your order please.

16. Patty’s Charcoal Drive-in
By: Barbara Cooker
Jillian Clark
AP Lit