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Good Fortune

by Dave HoekstraFebruary 11, 2016

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Something was lost here.

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Two herons on a pier

Redemption at every sunset

 

The winter circus comes through town

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Questions splatter on the windshield

The old mystic answers in her home on Hwy. 1

 

Wednesday Karaoke at the Caribbean Club

A prune-faced lady leans over to sing “Cabaret”

Songs are tickets to another time, old chum

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“We had it all, like Bogie & Bacall”Bertie Higgins

 

Bare feet dance on blades of grass

Touching perforated atonement in the dew

Turn it over, pick it up, keep this coupon.

It will mean something down the road.

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About The Author
Dave Hoekstra
Dave Hoekstra is a Chicago author-documentarian. He was a columnist-critic at the Chicago Sun-Times from 1985 through 2014, where he won a 2013 Studs Terkel Community Media Award. He has written books about heartland supper clubs, minor league baseball, soul food and the civil rights movement and driving his camper van across America.

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