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Round Trip

You board the bus a child, step off as an adult.
In between, years flash by like skipped stops
on an EXPRESS route. The you you were waits
back there, fare in hand, asking, “Did you forget?”

You can’t go home again because part of you never left.

Round Trip

You board the bus a child, step off as an adult.
In between, years flash by like skipped stops
on an EXPRESS route. The you you were waits
back there, fare in hand, asking, “Did you forget?”

You can’t go home again because part of you never left.

Robert Zverina, 44

Seattle / Blue Point, NY

 
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