My Barefoot Rank. David Craig

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      They were loud, finding games,

      behaving only as well as they had to—

      to the envy of no one.

      What did we lose when we left them there

      on those shores? Whose shoes did we learn to tie?

      Though I can’t speak for my brothers,

      I feel like it’s better to eat foods I cannot name

      than it is to wave a flag in the country of money.

      We’d stopped at an alligator farm

      on our honeymoon; and the Everglades,

      people circling its eyelid, sunning asphalt.

      For me that would be like inviting

      arrogant students back into my classroom.

      Yes, they have a right to exist—

      but not here.

      My daughter and I did manage some fun:

      the in-laws mobile home community pool,

      though we couldn’t jump in—pace-makers!

      And Haslam’s city, a huge bookstore

      in St. Pete’s, where you could actually handle

      new books, turn the clean pages, enjoy

      the thick vellum, shiny print. You could

      gather a stack, return a few—like in older days.

      But I keep coming back to those alligators:

      hundreds of hatchlings, one on top of the other

      in hungry cages, some finding dogs

      or two year olds by now.

      They are signs of a sort: welcome to Florida.

      We don’t have much sense, but our newscasters

      are pleasant, and our southern-most

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