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
