boardwalk chicken

ion Ocean City,

Maryland,

the best

chicken was boardwalk chicken.

deep fried and greasy,

crispy.

we'd settle

in at a picnic table

after hitchhiking

down route

50

and falling asleep

on the beach for hours,

we'd be hungry.

there was nothing like

a bucket of

chicken,

dinner rolls and honey.

a large drink

to fill us up

for the day.

with ten dollars between

us,

we could do it again

tomorrow

if we never collected

another nickel 

of spare change.