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Lawrence Ferlinghetti |
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Number 7 |
Fortune has its cookies to give out which is a good thing
since itīs been a long time since
that summer in Brooklyn when they closed off the street one hot day and the FIREMEN
turned on their hoses
and all the kids ran out in it
in the middle of the street and there were
maybe a couple dozen of us out there
with the water squirting up
to the
sky
and all over us
there was maybe only six of us kids altogether running around in our barefeet and birthday suits and I remember Molly but then
the firemen stopped squirting their hoses all of a sudden and went back in their firehouse and started playing pinochle again just as if nothing had ever happened while I remember Molly looked at me and ran in because I guess really we were the only ones there |
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