Merritt Pkwy

I was on the side of the road

Shiny traffic beetling by

She picked up a box of my clothes

Offered me a wash and a ride

We collected clovers in a park

Threaded them through our little fingers

She pulled up her shirt and showed me the mark

Where her father’s snow white knuckle lingered

And I say now what I said then

Please let me forget you

In some hot one gas station town

Please let me forget you

We came up with names for our kids

Though we’d only met an hour before

Names with an eastern european fit

Frederick, Casimir, and Isidore

At a seaside town we picked at our lunch

Talking of family, the books that we’d read

Back in the car, too nervous to touch

She emptied a bottle of water on my head

And I say now what I said then

Please let me forget you

In some hot one gas station town

Please let me forget you