Monday, May 15, 2006

mother's day at the bar

we are here in the
cool of the familiar
enduring as we play the machines

using up our monthly checks
faster than our children
used up our youth our health

at times, our marriages
with casual cruelty
as only the young can.

we watch the spinning cards
putting in fives and tens
perhaps the twenty

sent in a card
"dear mother..."




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