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Jeff Dutko
  
 
 
The Hot Dog Wrapper
 
 
  
 

The streets resound
and the bums are deluged
their private shamble of crooked street
lost in the migration of hot dog wrappers
the luxury of living so close
to the parking lot of the tennis stadium
 
just now letting out a woman
in a summer’s snow of white
telling her daughter
not to throw out, but wrap
her unfinished half of a hot dog
“so the trash pickers won’t eat it”
 
and I wonder
what disease does her daughter have
that she is protecting the bums from

 


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Jeff Dutko is a poet and teacher of special needs children.  Much of his work involves giving voice to the students he teaches.  He lives in Connecticut with his wife, son where they all throw a ball to their dog.

 
 
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