Lawrence Hall
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
LogoSophia Magazine – A Pilgrim's Journal of Life, Literature and Love
Life Up On Cinder Blocks
In the flickering-fog-forever-flare-lit night
He steered along a mud-crumbling shell road
Off Highway 225, through cracking towers
Day shift to juke joint to the trailer park on the right
He’d catch it for his two-Budweiser breath
Just two - promise! That skinny girl who danced
Like she was dancing just for him, green eyes
Shimmering as seductively as a Shiner Beer
When he stepped down he tripped on a cinder block
Left over from setting up some steps to the door
She didn’t look up as he flung his jacket over a chair
A sack of Dairy Queen cold on the table
She was sitting with a box where he kept his books
Artifacts of a roadblocked freshman year -
Introduction to College Algebra
Major British Writers, Geology
Industrial Engineering – and asked
“Do you think we can get anything out of these?”
She noted his sudden hope, and broke him of that:
“I mean, like, y’know, from a re-sale shop.”
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