Haunted at 9:19pm, autumn 2004

Jeff Stuckey

 

These cities haunt me

All their alleyways and bars

Mexican smack dealers

And the old Vietnam vets 

Nights and afternoons

The bar girls drunk by noon

Looking pretty and lost

Remembering the boy who

Broke their heart in 1996

These cities haunt me

As I board a greyhound bus

To see a friend a few towns over

They leave me

Remembering the air

On a fall day

Drinking wine under a bridge

With fellow poets

And passing through strangers

These thoughts haunt me

As I step out for a pack of smokes

Eager to get back home

And write this poem

 

 

 

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