Road Trip
by Angel Zapata
Takes a nursing aide
with concrete fingers
to side roll daddy,
sponge him clean,
crack jokes
between
diaper
changes.
Thirty-three years
of road repairs;
was the eye-candy
of mini-van
soccer moms
awed by
biceps,
stretch,
sweat
over black-top tar.
Road signs
leave little to
the imagination:
caution,
slow down,
danger ahead,
road ends.
Gyroscope Review 35
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