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Exile Volume 39 Number 2 Article 54 1992 Losing Time on the Massachusetts Turnpike Amy Hughes Denison University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.denison.edu/exile  Part of the Creative Writing Commons Recommended Citation Hughes, Amy (1992) "Losing Time on the Massachusetts Turnpike," Exile: Vol. 39 : No. 2 , Article 54. Available at: https://digitalcommons.denison.edu/exile/vol39/iss2/54 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the English at Denison Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Exile by an authorized editor of Denison Digital Commons. Losing Time on the Massachusetts Turnpike He drove a 1967 Dodge Polara. Pea Green consumed three fourths of highway from Cape Cod to Boston. We fit three across, including Sam, whose haunches spread like warm mayonnaise across the middle. He whipped drool from window to window like a crazed lawn sprinkler, inhaled the waning summer air and the pizza still warm on my legs. While Dad molded the plastic steering wheel, I caught scoopfuls of wind with a Slurpee cup out an open window, and plugged AM stations. Pieces of songs and commentary cracked through one screen speaker. I was waiting for the one about the rain to start even though the sky was blue forever. The shell mosaic driveway we left behind. gave way to the North in the same forgetful sweep as low tide: Tender ooze, sea grass and quahogs. - Amy Hughes '93 14 

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