Treat Me Well

Originally written for and performed at Essay Fiesta (2016).

Part of Track Names Handwritten & Glittered: A Memoir Mix Tape.

“‘Well I have lost some time, but I have won,’ Ann Wilson* softly sings on track seven of Heart’s 1977 album, Little Queen. ‘And if you make it through,’ she continues, ‘you know you’ve just begun.’ A couple more lines and then the chorus: ‘So will you treat me well, oh will you treat me well..?’ Never mind her yearning toward the song’s unnamed other, she is singing those words, that chorus, to thirteen-year-old Michael…”

* Actually Nancy Wilson….