Local News from Someplace Else. Marjorie Maddox

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СКАЧАТЬ this former tourist-attraction for tranquility.

      Eventually, summer skateboarders

      will again hunt back roads,

      barefoot teens will dive

      into abandoned swimming holes,

      grade-schoolers at bat will boast

      that they were there, that day,

      in the hallway, the cafeteria,

      the next classroom over.

      On the hottest day

      when a small town’s boredom sizzles

      into the limbs of its children,

      they will wonder what it was like to aim,

      to hit the target fast and accurately,

      to explode in the unfamiliar dazzle

      of forbidden city lights.

      The Good Mother Hides From Photographers

      All week they’ve stolen her daughter’s face,

      rolled it up, delivered it in late editions

      to each waiting neighbor, all of whom

      are quoted passionately as saying,

      “She comes from a good family.

      We don’t understand.”

      Neither does she, hiding behind

      her just-washed curtains,

      the family portraits eyeing her disgrace.

      Reporters ring the bell,

      wait for her good manners

      to reclaim her.

      It is time for school,

      her daughter appropriately housed

      behind evenly spaced bars,

      her unsure lips as complex as fingerprints.

      Even this is a photographic exhibit

      with the wrong captions.

      Behind her 8 x 10 door,

      the good mother develops

      polite excuses, snaps

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