Joseph Szalinski Poet Other

Erie Hotel

Around 2004,
  my family and I started
 going on vacations to Erie
  twice a summer.
Accompanying us on these excursions
 were the Jenkinses--
 family friends who were more like actual family.
In addition to our typical week at the beach,
 they joined us for a sneak peek weekend
 earlier in the summer
  where we stayed at a hotel by the airport. 
 We'd sit on the lawn,
watching planes,
 us kids running around, 
  the adults drinking beer.
The outside pool was 
 our home.
 Cole & I would jump into 
 the deep end ad infinitum, 
 never ceasing to find the utmost joy
 in so simple an act. 
He commented on the blonde 
 strands of hair on my head,
 I lied and said that was my natural color--
just wanted to be blonde.
  But now the hotel is relegated only to memory;
 the long, entrance hallway;
 breakfast area where I burnt my mouth
by sipping hot chocolate
through a straw, 
like a dumbass,
in 2005.

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