*loolaville _poetry    



Quarter in the Fountain


I tend to run across relationships
like quarters in the couch.
Recently I found one and kept it;
carried it in that little pocket
inside the pocket of my blue jeans, and
held it in my hand
now and then to feel it's warmth.

I saved it - maybe because it had a
statehood backing - and waited to use
it for something cool.
After all the waiting, nothing to special
came along so instead of using it
toward that last pack of cigarettes,
I tossed it in a fountain.

I tend to get involved with people who
end up tossing me aside like that quarter.
But a fountain with thousands of
coins in the warm sun is a brand
new world.
 


   
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