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Shorted


The café is pressing down on us nakedly; we don't waver
at the end; you tip the waitress; we leave.

Getting in the car is our waking; the music is our lord;
I'm alive at sixteen; you're asleep at fifty; the road is short.

The only thing we talk about on the seamless ride home
is the snifter full of delicious crabmeat placed between us.
 


 

 


 

Phil Rice /  2009