December 17th, 2009
On the truck stop stool next to me,
staring straight into 3am coffee
and the thick haired hog-back
of his hand,

wondering how many caked-
lipstick bitches
have been thrown through
windows on the kiss
of his grease-creased knuckles,

wandering along rows
of cracked heads and chain-
beaten limbs left in his swaggering
outside a roadhouse diner,

working up a lather in the men’s room
against a hard-blowing hand dryer,
jeans around knees and panting,

I can’t look him in the face
as I gaze into lemon meringue,
kids asleep in the mini-van waiting.
                        

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by David Oprava