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Fifteen Minutes After

By Wil C. Fry, March 17, 2000, 23:59

Copyright © 2000 by Wil C. Fry. All rights reserved.


Fifteen minutes after
You calm down
Enough to think about what she said
the Fight
Fifteen minutes after
The cuffs chafe
Your wrists as you stare down the road
the Arrest
Fifteen minutes after
You hit the showers
And wash away the mud of conflict
the Big Game
Fifteen minutes after
The last echoes
Have died away and the auditorium empties
the Concert
Fifteen minutes after
Your belly aches
But it isn't really funny anymore
the Joke
Fifteen minutes after
The big screen is blank
And your ticket stub is in the garbage
the Movie
Fifteen minutes after
You drive out
Of the cemetery and it’s over
the Funeral



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