stripped hollow redolent
of 99 Barrels of Beer
first-day-of-school and
summer’s-almost-here voices
green vinyl cracked coated
with an uneven film
of red dirt and
on the corrugated rubber floor
under a seat five rows back
a tiny square of yellowed paper
conceals nervous letters
scrawled in dissolving blue
ink spelling out the beginning
of the end of innocence
(c) 2019, by Hannah Six
Image: Pablo Garcia Saldaña/Wikimedia Commons
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