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American Summer

Poems written while traveling.

Reno


Fifty bucks for a 50s motel room—
painted cinderblock and each door

a sequenced pastel.  But the kids
wanted to swim:   just to swim

so I was feeling like someone's
old man sitting on the pool steps

neck-deep and sipping a beer,
admiring their young exuberance

and wondering just how much
this evening would cost me.




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