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BOLT BUS Thanksgiving, 2009

Douglas Holder

Sometimes—
There is nothing sadder
Than a rest stop
In some nondescript
Nook of cement
Outside of Hartford
Walking out of the rain
To see a lone,
Pimply kid
Wearing the paper crown
Of the Burger King franchise.

And the help
Bursting at the seams of their uniforms
So fat
And unformed,
Yelling hello
To the driver
Their own Magellan—
An exotic
Who stops on his way
From Boston to New York,

And the rain comes down in torrents
And you are neither
Here or there
And really
Much too tired to care.

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