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A hotel beside Interstate 44 in Tulsa, Oklahoma

David Van Bebber Jr.

A hotel beside Interstate 44 in Tulsa, Oklahoma
defies gravity with its formation.
For now it provides stay only to my thoughts.

Windows, some boarded some just gone.
Years of defending neighbors from
the bullets of rocks and beer bottles.

The eroding ivy has overtaken the once blue paint
and the fortress of stone work,
carved to defend it’s weekend rates and complementary breakfast,
has fallen victim to its phantoms.

This casualty of capitalistic warfare
once elegant,
suffers the humiliation of currency defeat.

And though the rooms lay empty
this hotel leaves no vacancy in my imagination.
It stands a monument
a place of rest for the wandering mind.

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