Easy Street

**Self portrait video of Susan Kirschbaum/Shot 1/19/2020 **Copyrighted

 

Remember when the World was flat?

When I could walk to the corner for a pack of gum

Run into a forgotten friend

A dash into a dive bar

A brew and a wink

Some pool game out back

My dark roots were showing

His fly was down

I looked away and laughed

Same way he did

When I sunk the eight ball way too soon

—  Poem by Susan Kirschbaum (**Copyright 2020)

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