that time they turned

the water off/

by the third day

we made it

2 the car wash

stripped down naked

envenomed members

of the community

whose moral malignancy/

was bitter as the sting

from the soapy hose

it was resentment that

in tenderness

objected to a bunch

of naked boys taking

showers at the

car wash/

even as those kids laughed

and pranced in

provoking horror

stricken awe and propriety

which was the community’s

final straw/

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