Here in America in many states
people report a young woman
hitchhiking on a highway
in the dark of night
when some kind soul
gives her a ride
she gets in the car
and acts a little off
usually she’s wearing
something like a prom dress
in variations of the allegedly
true story
she tells the driver to stop at a cemetery
gets out of the car and walks into it
as if it were the most natural thing in the world
to enter a cemetery in the dark of night
if followed, she disappears
in some tellings of this tale
sometimes a smitten young man
supposedly gets a date with her
before she gets out of the car
when he goes to her address days later
for the date, her mournful mother opens
the door and says her daughter died years ago
I don’t know what this ghost girl’s name is
but I know with talk of her appearing in many states
throughout the U S of A, she sure gets around.
Bob Boyd