When you live in a place people
come for spring break, shop at grocery stores
proximate to the dolphins and seagulls
sometimes college tourists mistake you for
some girl going wild approximately their
own age. Approach with carts full of Coronas
to bump yours full of produce to prepare
chicken pot pie. Not Spring Break, Pensacola,
but you know it is somewhere when they say
hi. Mention parties at their condos while
you exit towards the baking aisle. Do they
think you are a cougar, mistake a womanchild
smile for some lost party girl they’ve found?
If it’s spring break somewhere, it finds you in town.
Kristin Garth is a Pushcart, Rhysling nominated sonneteer and a Best of the Net 2020 finalist, the author of a short story collection You Don’t Want This (Pink Plastic Press), The Stakes (Really Serious Literature) and many more books.
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