he escorts her loveliness into his rusting ’84 Nissan Stanza, which—
stuck in rush hour traffic—overheats fifteen minutes after leaving
campus, twenty minutes from the first date he painstakingly planned
after she asked him out for Valentine’s Day…
“best date ever” is a college memory in poem form recently published in the latest from Tidings. Read or download the whole anthology here. “best date ever” is on page 39.