Front Page
At the Bon Jour Cafe
a front page athlete
splashes into the Oregonian.
Plaster dust on my bagel
from a cupid shaped hole
in the ceiling.
The cafe is on 3rd Avenue.
A empty paper bag
floats across traffic like a single mom.
I ask the waitress for a new bagel.
Or a Lifeguard's whistle.
Then a bronze wet hand
rises out of page one
and steals the salt.
Bill Jansen lives in Forest Grove, Oregon. Recent work as appeared or will soon appear in Gap Toothed Madness and Asinine Poetry.
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