The One Night

In a new place in old clothes
along winding canals,
you are twenty again, in Amsterdam

with sunshine hair and spirit
still cocksure.  Not steering
this dark ship through

Friday, being the one night
you should never.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2007

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April 1, 2009 at 2:22 PM
Like Stacey says - makes one want to be in Amsterdam and much younger. I was in Amsterdam in 1976, on a symphony tour...visited the red light district, but didn't purchase anything. My friend did, told his wife about it a couple of years later. Now he's divorced. Love, daver
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