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Good Wives Don't Drive
Joan Jobe Smith
- My father refused to teach my mother
- how to drive his car. He said it
- wasn’t ladylike in 1949; a woman driver
- was no better than a streetwalker. She was
- to take the bus and be a good wife like
- his mother was, so my mother took secret
- driving lessons, the instructor man
- coming every day in his grey sedan
- to show her how to let out the clutch
- just right so the car wouldn’t jerk, how
- to work the choke and the radio, make
- turn signals, arm bent up for right,
- straight out for left, down for slow,
- me in the backseat watching as we drove
- the L.A. streets: Firestone, Rosemead,
- Sunset Boulevard, Pico, La Brea and
- Santa Fe and the day she got her driver’s
- license she bought herself a green 1939
- Ford coupe and waited in the front seat
- in the driveway for my father to come home,
- honked the horn at him when he arrived
- and said Hey handsome, need a ride?
Joan Jobe Smith is the founding editor of the literary journals Pearl and Bukowski Review. She worked for seven years as a go-go girl in Southern California before receiving her BA from CSULB and MFA from UCI. Her literary profile, Charles Bukowski: Epic Glottis: His Art & His Women (& me), was recently published by Silver Birch Press, and her memoir Tales of An Ancient Go-Go Girl is forthcoming from World Parade Books. “Good Wives Don’t Drive” was included in a 2001 City Lights publication, Another City, edited by David Ulin, and will appear shortly in re(verb, a Long Beach-based literary journal.
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Good Wives Don't Drive
Good Wives Don't Drive
Joan Jobe Smith
- My father refused to teach my mother
- how to drive his car. He said it
- wasn’t ladylike in 1949; a woman driver
- was no better than a streetwalker. She was
- to take the bus and be a good wife like
- his mother was, so my mother took secret
- driving lessons, the instructor man
- coming every day in his grey sedan
- to show her how to let out the clutch
- just right so the car wouldn’t jerk, how
- to work the choke and the radio, make
- turn signals, arm bent up for right,
- straight out for left, down for slow,
- me in the backseat watching as we drove
- the L.A. streets: Firestone, Rosemead,
- Sunset Boulevard, Pico, La Brea and
- Santa Fe and the day she got her driver’s
- license she bought herself a green 1939
- Ford coupe and waited in the front seat
- in the driveway for my father to come home,
- honked the horn at him when he arrived
- and said Hey handsome, need a ride?
Joan Jobe Smith is the founding editor of the literary journals Pearl and Bukowski Review. She worked for seven years as a go-go girl in Southern California before receiving her BA from CSULB and MFA from UCI. Her literary profile, Charles Bukowski: Epic Glottis: His Art & His Women (& me), was recently published by Silver Birch Press, and her memoir Tales of An Ancient Go-Go Girl is forthcoming from World Parade Books. “Good Wives Don’t Drive” was included in a 2001 City Lights publication, Another City, edited by David Ulin, and will appear shortly in re(verb, a Long Beach-based literary journal.
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