The Vibrant Channeled Creator

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Family Vacation


by John Kenney

This is relaxing


I think to myself


on the first day
of our vacation


as I hide


in the men’s room


of a Roy Rogers


at a rest stop


just off bumper-to-bumper I-95


while the kids


continue fighting


with tennis racquets


in the back seat.


And only five more hours to go.


I don’t want to leave this place


I whisper aloud.


Neither do I


says the man in the next stall.
 
“Family Vacation” by John Kenney from Love Poems (for People with Children). G.P. Putnam’s Sons © 2019. Reprinted with permission.