Issue 22 - 1992
Issue 22 - 1992
Issue 22 - 1992
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Ass and Assonance<br />
Troy Headrick<br />
Coe Review • <strong>Issue</strong> <strong>22</strong><br />
I’m the fool who sits<br />
at the swimming pool<br />
and watches.<br />
The people splash and thrash<br />
and the young infant-kids<br />
dash<br />
until the lifeguard blows his/her<br />
whistle and yells, “don’t run,<br />
slow down!”<br />
And the water is turquoise like an<br />
artificial sky inverted<br />
(brought down to earth)<br />
and condensed to become<br />
liquid. Why is it that<br />
people crave this water so?<br />
Enough even to go under it and swim<br />
full of held breaths, the<br />
stale wind?<br />
Because it cools the hot skin and<br />
is the escape--it being<br />
the nearest thing<br />
to a new world, one without<br />
borders or<br />
seams, one full of wet<br />
dreams.<br />
And the teenage boys stand off<br />
at the side<br />
and scheme how to jump in near her<br />
(the one with big ones)<br />
and cop a quick handful<br />
of squeeze.<br />
The way those boys stand<br />
one knows that there are<br />
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