A female voice cooed through vintage JBL speakers in the last record store left on the Oregon Coast. I heard:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said that if the sex was half as good as the conversation was The lyrics arrested me. I stopped browsing used country CDs hunting for Shania Twain’s greatest hits. I walked up to the clerk sitting behind the counter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She wore ripped jeans and a rocker t-shirt. She looked like a lead singer for a Coos Bay rock band. Toyz? Dammit Jim? Phat Cheetah? Blue Tide? Timber Wolf?<\/p>\n\n\n\n It was a Taylor Swift song she told me. I’d never heard a Taylor Swift song. I told the clerk that and her face exploded with bliss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She launched into a Taylor Swift seminar. She quoted the damn discography!<\/p>\n\n\n\n When passion presents itself from five feet away in the last record store left on the Oregon Coast, you best engage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The same goes when meeting a homeless man on a Coos Bay beach at 6:15 in the morning and he offers you a leg of red rock crab he caught at midnight with a milk crate during a bout of insomnia, cooked an hour ago, and just cracked open leg with needle nose pliers in front of you from five feet away. Delicious!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n The clerk and I introduced ourselves\u2014her name an interesting derivation of a body of water that rhymed with a mediocre glam metal band from the 80s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We discussed music. She told me she was a groupie for a national country act and traveled all over the country. She didn’t think groupie was a bad word. I agreed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I recommended Liz Phair’s debut album. She wrote it down. I knew she’d investigate because I promised clever wordplay:<\/p>\n\n\n\n They make rude remarks about me A female voice cooed through vintage JBL speakers in the last record store left on the Oregon Coast. I heard: He said that if the sex was half as good as the conversation wassoon they’d be pushing strollers but soon it was over The lyrics arrested me. I stopped browsing used country CDs hunting for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9882,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","category-poetry","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9883,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9881\/revisions\/9883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
soon they’d be pushing strollers but soon it was over<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
They wonder just how wild I would be
As they egg me on and keep me mad
They play me like a pit bull in a basement<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"