A traveller decides to leave
his clipped wing cappuccino
at the Seattle Coffee Co and
scrape his eyes from the sky
A receptionist returns home
to her husband and tells him
of parents’ failed attempts
at rescuing their daughter
from drugs and prostitution
They collected her flung body
at the base of the Ponte
When a boy the traveller dreamt
of falling from places up high
on several timeless occasions
but never to any ultimate demise
Quite peculiar having to get up
after such involuntary efforts
The receptionist reminds her husband
to fit his cheap new trunks and T-shirt
before their holiday along some coast
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