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Bottom the Weaver's Street Legal Greeting
By Gerald Yelle
Best wishes for months with 5 Sundays,
4 long weekends, 3 double headers, 2
weeks off, a break in the water main,
a half pint of wooden nickels, a quart shy
as measured by the dipstick, which hasn’t
been dry up to now, an eighth of an
inch to the left and the bullet would have
struck a major vein. Best wishes for a
free ride to the seminar for writing with your
eyes closed. For the deadline and the
chokehold the grownups use on noisy
children. For procedures where no one
sleeps a tenth of a beat beyond daybreak
when kids put it back on the elders
where any less would be more than the
gesture that brought them sobbing into
the world. Choking back wishes for
invading the neighbors. Wrapping bottles
in towels so 2 won’t knock abreast.
For suits we’ll wear like ghost boys
in underwater training films, glaring at
the camera while cases of animal cruelty
go unsolved by main force of will.
Gerald Yelle worked for a small company and for a big one as factory worker, computer operator, and customer service representative. Now he teaches high school English. He has published poems most recently in Silkworm, decomP and The Pedestal. He is a member of the Florence (MA) Poets Society. Notes, comments and links can be found at geraldyelle.blogspot.com.
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