an almost accidental gathering of poets
 
   
 
 
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
 
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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