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Legal for 2 years, 8 months, 3 weeks

CEE

Smirking at the silly owner
Handing him my ID with pity
I’m late for my stepfather’s party,
I don’t know Illinois is 21 to Florida’s 18 — —
— — Pronounced unworthy
Case pulled backward
Not allowed to purchase something I don’t want
(You’re kidding)
No one obeys Laws that way
Laws, after all, are only statistical probabilities
Of arrest;
I imagine talking to the owner like he’s a child
Leaving money on the counter,
Leaving with the beer
My stepfather’s birthday party
Is perhaps 4 blocks away;
Years later,
Everyone older-bro tells me
How the cops would’ve shithammered me
(Sure)
I’m legal many years—cops don’t leap to the fray
Not that way
But, my stepfather’s birthday present
Wasn’t worth the challenge,
Still staggered by the memory, though
The owner acted like what he did was right
Not just
Not wrong

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