Hotel

Stayed at a hotel
in Tucson Arizona
darkness lit the hallway
the only place I could afford to stay
each night I would pray
that the next day
would not come
I was stuck, abandoned
hungry no food around
wondering when death would come
no way out
next door people would shout
at their crying babies
no one with any money
and empty bellies
no solutions 
just empty notions
dark and abandoned
at a hotel
in Tucson Arizona
Copyright © | Year Posted 2005

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