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David Perlmutter's avatar

That billboard art...artifact of another time.

Jonathan Potter's avatar

No kidding ...

Sherman Alexie's avatar

Ah, the farm town high school water fountains with that used ball of chew looking like modern cowboy installation art...

Jonathan Potter's avatar

I should probably clarify that I was only about ten years old at the time and Mark was a precocious pre-teen tobacco chewer.

Daniel Hettenbach's avatar

Excellent. Clean. Love story and choosing who you're going to be. Life. Mr. Potter👌

Jonathan Potter's avatar

Thank you, Mr Hettenbach

Richbee's avatar

Double signs Do not enter

Yet couple walk

Their own way.

Jonathan Potter's avatar

I was surprised to find the photo on unsplash.

Richbee's avatar

I Ching is cast.

Fortune unknown.

Let it be.

Rufus McCain's avatar

this stanza feels like adolescence knocking politely rather than kicking the door in. It expands the poem’s emotional and intellectual bandwidth without changing its weather. Exactly the right move at this stage.

Keith Aron's avatar

That feeling of losing one's feet for days...and arriving at a developmental intersection you'd never been at before, with new ideas and a lot of gliding. This is so relatable, and so evocative.