Poems

Girl Scouts

By Alicia Salvadeo

Went with the troop to
the bad    side of town
Toured a precinct, saw a guy
      get booked      look at that, girls

Fingers     down on ink      press here   and here

Misheard maybe,
said his teeth got broke
on a peach pit 

                           that’s why

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