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Suburban Evening

Sara Crawford

Outside of the coffee shop, a summer night,
a thousand SUVs are zooming by,
drivers are eating smashed up cows
between pieces of bread soaked in grease.
Are they going home? Are they escaping?
Wal-mart and Starbucks are my scenery.
To my left, a group of men are sitting,
discussing business, the wives, and the kids.
One man tells which football teams he’s betting on.
He can’t wait for the season to start.
To my left, young, blonde women smoke cigarettes.
“So, um, like, I don’t know,” one of them says.
The stop light on the street turns red.
Cars are stopped. It turns green. They go.
The cycle is repeated.
I’m dreaming of Paris, New York,
Stockholm, London, Moscow,
Prague, Venice, Madrid, or Chicago.
How did I end up here? Why have I
never left? I don’t want to be like the old man
sitting at the table behind me.
He sits in silence, remembering
adventures he never had.
I throw my four-dollar cup of tea
into the trash, get in my car, drive home.

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of cc&d magazine.
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printed, but you can requesting it
“re-released” through amazon sale
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