Free Entry 1, Week 10

Watuba, Mississippi

Daisy + I pull into Love's

gas station in Watuba, MS,

where 30 years ago

I would have been Emmitt Tilled

for even looking her - my black

2XL shirt protecting the stretchmarks

on her lovehandles - or throwing a smile her way.

She walks ahead into the cookie-cutter Subway,

where a hispanic boy is hiding + seeking his baby sis

under tables + chairs, while I smoke our last Malboro

and count cars fly by on I-95.