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Sunrise at the Cock and Cooter Motel


by Mathew Paust


Strange how meridian angles

can play such a hand

‘twixt basic splendor

and civil ennui.


Night owl, she

while morning

rouses

the sensual in me.


Mismatched rhythms

a marriage can strain

but these cheap rented sheets

at dawn set me free.

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