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Splendor Town


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Splendor Town

 

 

Larry, thirty-something, had walked every

granulized glassy treadmill in this

bum stock burg. Straying or staying?,

he ogled the partially devoured Neapolitan ice cream.

 

He carried a compass, and a carafe,

brimming with boltcutters and bourbon. His mind

whistled taps as he pulled the runway plug

and walked into the woods.

 

Houdini could never make a whole town

disappear, but Larry's talents prohibited him,

from ordinary feats. Sipping his jar he fleetingly

squired beneath the copious canopy.

 

Jovial timbers barked compliments, while

tacky thorns weren't priccks as he flew

below Hollywood's narrative, giddy as

an aspen in simmering breeze.

 

Swelling with pride the infant pine cones

marooned in the undergrowth ,waiting for

the carpenters from the sky to come calling,

tried to catch a glimpse of Larry.

 

This gypsy, this idol of the backwoods,

an esoteric fool meshed in the annuals

of a folklore, long remembered and long forgotten,

simply laid down and smiled as if he had won the lotto.

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