Boosters

you used to pour
the water tall

used the water
for the orchids

that your sister
asked to smell

when she asked
about your vote

your father said
you have a choice

he said, son,
we have a choice

you found love
in high school

at the football
game in autumn

you chose each
other whom

you’d never
come to know

and will never
come to know

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Caroline Hubbard lives in Missouri.