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The Dock

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Summertime

I was four yrs old tied into  an orange life preserver

load us all into the boat

Uncle Skip

He sure was              Skipper of us all

Everyone else lost

I’m not even joking

Aunt Pat mowing the lawn down to splinters and pain

Kathy’s brownies oh Kathy’s brownies!

Bronze burned into a summer day

There is sun in this world we rest in the rain

Scott dropping the watermelon next to the seawall

spit a memory of seeds

Run as fast as you can

Don’t fall through some rotted wood

Off the dock

 Jump!

Hold your breath

Into the air you go

Fall into the water

Listen as the boats muffled engines speed by

Chris throwing aunt Pat off the end of that dock

Close my eyes at twilight

I watch from the back of a 71 station wagon

Sky turning to orange

Into the peace they gave us

Oh         yah and                love

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