Waters, Jim

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The Prairie Light Review Volume 42 Number 2 Article 67 Spring 5-1-2020 Do the Wave Jim Waters College of DuPage Follow this and additional works at: https://dc.cod.edu/plr Recommended Citation Waters, Jim (2020) "Do the Wave," The Prairie Light Review: Vol. 42 : No. 2 , Article 67. Available at: https://dc.cod.edu/plr/vol42/iss2/67 This Artwork is brought to you for free and open access by the College Publications at DigitalCommons@COD. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Prairie Light Review by an authorized editor of DigitalCommons@COD. For more information, please contact orenick@cod.edu.  We took turns tolerating and ignoring,Making do with whatever happened to work. We tackled the ones we could,Solving the fixable to make us feel better. And we felt better, bonded by what was unique,Like a weed growing in the cracks,Beautiful even though damned by its nameSurrounded by the coarse and broken companyOf sidewalk. We ignored the chipped concrete of the back porchStained burgundy with mulberries,Alive with teeming flies and June bugs,The larvae moving underneathThe garbage can lid that smelled like murderOr the back porch that looked like murder,Or another kind of death you have to be carefulNot to talk about.Do the Wave                                                               Jim Waters1Waters: Do the WavePublished by DigitalCommons@COD, 2020

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