42). We Didn't Talk Awards

modern poetry

We didn't talk awards;
Lasting hope, application,
Train scheduled;
The longer you're there;
The more positions available.
Most of the staff at
The store down the road
Look up at the clock,
And you can imagine a
Bell going off.
Home,
For the bus crowd,
Usually,
After school.


"We Didn't Talk Awards," poem forty-two of  "Lettersongs,"
unpublished work © 2008, Lisa Page Weil.  All rights reserved.