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Saturday Poem: everyone

Saturday Poem: everyone

I tell everyone to try

to take note of things

that are improvements

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like soft foaming soap in a bottle

vastly sturdier tires

air in the shrunken city —

so much cleaner that men don’t 

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wash cars on Saturdays anymore;

everyone is wearing black

and talking on small personal phones

many are fat and no one smokes

but everyone knows the way

to stay alive is movement

dance spin run yoga make room

for those bikes but watch out —

everyone runs the red lights.

Judith R. Robinson

Judith R. Robinson is an editor, teacher, fiction writer and poet living in Shadyside. She has been published in numerous magazines, newspapers and anthologies. Her poetry collections include “Orange Fire” (2012), “The Blue Heart” (2013) and, most recently, “When I Loved You” (2015). Her novel “Innocent People” was just published on Amazon Kindle.

First Published: March 12, 2016, 5:00 a.m.

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