Saturday, June 26, 2021

a peaceful walk


needing some
meditative quiet,
i go off the path
and into the woods, 
i find a slender dirt trail
that leads through
the trees, along the blue lake.
it's quiet until
i reach a clearing where
a picnic is going on
and people
are dancing and blowing horns.
it's a chaotic
party of men and women
half out of their
minds with sangria. 
come join us, they say. 
come on mister.
come on.
what the hell, why not i think.
they hand me a bottle
of tequila
and say, chug, chug, chug.
the next day
wake up in a motel
i in laurel maryland
with a tattoo on my arm,
and the name
rosalita across my chest.

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