for every passing car
up the avenue
early memory
announces itself
a stripped-down pickup football game
my unexpected speed
a hot summer day in the middle of the ohio river
swimming back from brunot island
desperately floating
not fighting
the current
the steady rumble
of a pinsetter's disrespect
for a ninth grade social studies teacher
an eighth grade history teacher who asks
"are there any jews here"
a half-dozen bee-bee holes in the windows
of franklin ice cream (lee & meadowbrook)
learning how to take a punch
before
learning how to swing back
it's alright ma
endless love illusions
still
more shark than jet
--- e b bortz
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