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Poems At the Public Swimming Pool There’s a lot of people in the shower at the public swimming pool             women with fat bottoms             kids with bellies sticking out             a girl with a tattoo Suds slop across the floor, surf headed down the drain Some stand at the showerhead             face at the nozzle like a microphone             hear me now watch me roar Others bow their heads beneath the spray             doing penance for a crime Some have not moved.  Hours have passed and they are human prunes For others, water is a machine, apply systematically,             here, then there, then here again. Still others wrap their arms around it like their lover. Some stand well back, least it bite. They don’t want to get involved             in any hasty affair. The sign says             please limit showers to             3 minutes while others are waiting Yet there is no clock             Only a sea of naked people under the shower at the public swimming pool.

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