Ledger

for Carl Item 1. A motorcycle. Not transportation. A language. Chrome could be trusted. Bolts tightened when tightened. Engines answered honestly. Girls were more difficult. ⸻ Item 2. One girl said she loved you at sixty miles an hour. You told her you preferred motorcycles. She shook you hard enough to move both of you out of the road. Three months in the hospital is a long time to learn that…