By Dick Eiden
Dick is a poet, attorney, and political activist living in Vista, California.
Dick is a poet, attorney, and political activist living in Vista, California.
Happy Hour on the Border
This place is hopping Friday at five,
regulars at the bar, happy hour prices,
families in the dining room with kids menus,
a small box of crayons and paper place mats
with a circus theme.
The cooks and servers share a room downtown
and a ride to work. The guy who opens and closes,
came up in a caravan, sleeps on a cot in the kitchen.
The manager wears a class ring, drives a Subaru,
watches the President rant on TV, red in the face.
Another caravan travels north toward the border,
and battle-ready soldiers move south to confront them
on lonely border highways and dirt roads - a convoy
of taco trucks on their trail.
3-19
regulars at the bar, happy hour prices,
families in the dining room with kids menus,
a small box of crayons and paper place mats
with a circus theme.
The cooks and servers share a room downtown
and a ride to work. The guy who opens and closes,
came up in a caravan, sleeps on a cot in the kitchen.
The manager wears a class ring, drives a Subaru,
watches the President rant on TV, red in the face.
Another caravan travels north toward the border,
and battle-ready soldiers move south to confront them
on lonely border highways and dirt roads - a convoy
of taco trucks on their trail.
3-19
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