Foxy John's Beer Wine Good Food Low Prices

Mack Hall, HSG
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Foxy John’s

Beer Wine Good Food Low Prices

 Between class and the night shift, Foxy John’s:

Books and ideas, an old Sheaffer pen
Scribbled notes on a yellow pad, a pipe
Of Holland House, coffee, another cup
The old MG stood loyally outside
The San Diego night smelled of the sea
Damp and cool out beyond the fluorescents
And at dawn, between the night shift and class
More coffee, more tobacco, weary eyes
Ill-focused on Henry at Canossa
And the ocean tides and the morning fogs
Turning the seasons marked shifts and studies.

How curious never to have met John

And so to learn whether he was foxy