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Hospitality

Hospitality

they outlawed

smoking

 

at a packed place …

a place that needs a smoke

 

the most

 

folks don’t go there

to light up

 

they go spent

with worry

sick with sadness

 

for somebody they love

is laid up in bed

in the worst way,

and there’s nothing they can do

but wait it out

and hope their somebody

gets to go home

 

soon

 

so they pray

a silent prayer

 

and sit

with strangers

 

and walk

in circles

 

and think

about all the things

they haven’t faced

 

what if their somebody

doesn’t make it out

 

alive

 

then what

 

anybody got a light

 

anybody

TL

Published inTamiko Lowery