Friday, March 20, 2020

Pushkin and the Sheriff's Report - virus-free poem

Lawrence Hall
mhall46184@aol.com
poeticdrivel.blogspot.com

Pushkin and the Sheriff’s Report

In a languid Russian story or play
A beautiful young woman in a summer dress
Beside a willow-tree lake sits and dreams
Over a novel as a caller arrives

But in our time we read in the sheriff’s report
Of tatted old meth-gals knifing each other
In a junked-out trailer surrounded by trash
While a bony meth-boy watches the fight

Love ends

Sometimes with notes in rounded copperplate
Sometimes with knives down at the trailer park

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