finding your way back home

finding your way back home

A Poem by J Matthew Waters

friday night limousine riders
speeding some seventy
miles per hour
cut up lemons and dispense
margaritas without rocks

outside airport secret police
intercept intelligence and
issue search warrants
briskly escorting illicit riders
to a flight of their life

dropped behind enemy lines
grown boys sober up quickly
burning camouflaged parachutes
and skirting the edges
hoping to find their way home

© 2014 J Matthew Waters


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Added on October 23, 2014
Last Updated on October 25, 2014
Tags: poem, poetry, recruit, sobriety, war, youth

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J Matthew Waters
J Matthew Waters

Cedar Rapids, IA



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I was born November 13, 1961 in Rock Island, Illinois, and grew up across the Mississippi River in Davenport, Iowa. In 1984 I graduated from the University of Iowa with a B.A. in English. My first poe.. more..

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