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This Should Be a Postcard

Honestly never thought I'd be writing a letter
to you from here. There's nothing else to do so
I am. I am sick of napping on my raw skin
in a row of others just like me _
like slabs of bacon lined up on Bounty
after the skillet. Didn't think I'd be missing you
from Key West under the sunset and
under a roof. There's nothing else to do so
I am. I am passing orange Gatorade and pain
killers that look like Certs to the others. Oprah is
about a woman who aCcidentally killed
a boy crossing the street.
At least I'm alive on my vacation.
Vacation -
isn't that supposed to mean bliss?
Didn't think I'd rather be home in a blizzard
and under a roof with you passing blankets.
The lady on the payphone at the motel
next door says it's four hundred dollars
for a one way ticket
home. Too tempting and too much
to chop a vacation in half. Guess
I'll go back to my spot on the boxspring.
Spring Break on a boxspring writing a letter to you.
Didn't think I was supposed to have time,
but I do.

Stephanie Lee

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