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Marlboro and Main

 

By William Doreski

 

 

We're halted at Marlboro and Main.

 

A woman wrung like a sea sponge

 

pushes a stroller full of twins,

 

their faces pulpy with unhealth.

 

 

 

Her weepy grief has extinguished

 

the cigarette stuck to her lip.

 

Her snaky blonde mop dangles

 

in a filthy uncombed fringe.

 

 

 

As she rams the stroller on the curb,

 

a scream about to escape her,

 

the light winks, and traffic raves on.

 

 

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