My Father Wishes He Were an Old Studebaker

Joe Shetina
2 min readAug 17, 2021
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My father wishes he were an old Studebaker
So he could drive his entire family
and all of his neighbors to the city
Every weekend and drive them back home
when they are too drunk to drive themselves

My father was a mechanic,
so maybe if he were an old Studebaker
He could fix what was wrong…

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Joe Shetina

They/he. Writer of fiction, screenplays, plays, reviews, essays, and poetry. Chicago. https://linktr.ee/jshetina