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"... brevity is the soul of wit ..."
- William Shakespeare

Michael Estabrook


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Last Days

At the club pool
squeezing the last rays of sunshine
out of the last days of summer
but I'm not anxious
about the coming fall
because I'm not returning to school
not going back to work
seeing as I'm retired, relaxed watching
as the woman in the orange bikini
surveys her domain
and the wasp
beneath my chair
continues building her nest
of dried grass.