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Veterans Drinking Coffee at the Angkor Wat Happy Doughnut Shop
on the Fourth of July
Everything else was closed, so here we are
At the next table three textbooks are spread:
Physics, Algebra II, and Calculus
The owner’s kid, wiping counters today
Come-from-away children cook and clean, sweep floors
And in between their chores are at their books
The native-born are still abed, asleep
In a smart-phone hangover of lethargy
Last night a man rattled on about glory
He wasn’t with us on the Vam Co Tay
