a driving force that can influence

"A Driving Force that Can Influence," September 1, 2022 (#244)

title from Quora thread by Dave Lepage (2022)

The Shining by Stephen King (1977)

Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop by Danyel Smith (2022)

Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney (1984)

Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, and a Dream by H.G. Bissinger (1990)

A Driving Force that Can Influence

The smell of hope had turned to the smell of old leather

to reprise their roles. How might this young Black couple

have done all the things that the "Manual of Factual Verification"

crumbled in places but was too well built to have disintegrated?

It had all these lights, all different colors. And when you turned

the queen of disco, but it was so much broader than that,

you met her in Kansas City, where you had gone to work

to decorate their half black and Odessa High supporters

and parti-colored Japanese lanterns hung the whole

wake of a storm. I smooth my ponytail and scribble

at your office. And then yesterday I go to your office and

then hours went by and then a day, and then another.

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