confetti - Interview in a Golf Cart

by G.M.H. Thompson

“Interview in a Golf Cart” by G.M.H. Thompson

At twelve at night, we went for a drive in a golf cart
in that park where he worked as a ranger,
& he told me about the first band he’d been in
way back in high school, an act named “Mother’s Pearl,”
& how the frontman would give him rides into the city
& about the first song they’d written & who wrote which parts,
& him & that frontman then formed a band which cut vinyl
& played South by Southwest, but he didn’t say why that stopped,

& I played him a riff on a keyboard I had brought,
& we cruised around & he told a car that the park was closed,
& then he asked if I wanted to see the horses,—
“The carriage horses,” he explained when I asked, “Horses?”
so in a stable lit by moonlight, we hayed two horses,
their large, white, wild eyes bulging frantically with each munch.