Stoplight on Highway 61

A poem for America

Photo by Daniel Andraski.

Stoplight on Highway 61 

     “For the loser now will be later to win.”
                                     — Bob Dylan 


On my right, a blonde’s eyes 
blistering, trying her best 
not to glance left. 

On my left, a man 
who would be about 
my fathers’s age, if 

he had lived, in a black 
“Duck Dynasty” T-shirt 
with big white letters saying, 

HAPPY, HAPPY, HAPPY. 
His shiny red hands
reach for the two dollars I offer. 

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