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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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