Thursday, February 11, 2021

This Ashtray was Stolen from the Seaview Motel - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

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This Ashtray was Stolen from the Seaview Motel

 

Color TV

Weekly Rates

No Pets

 

I couldn’t live at the beach forever

A series of shabby little rented rooms

Cheap wine and thin volumes of free verse

Beach hippie chicks, White Rabbit, and guitars

 

I had to go away, or someday die

An unrealized old man set out on the curb

And so, stubbing out a last cigarette

I packed my seabag and caught the morning bus

 

I couldn’t live at the beach forever

And in the end became respectable

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