Thank you to Mark Antony Rossi of Ariel Chart for publishing this poem in the July issue.

https://www.arielchart.com/2020/07/hotel-california-and-everywhere-else.html

Hotel California and Everywhere Else

Hotel California and Everywhere Else



At roadside inns, we check in,

then check out.

We spend tired nights

in these public stockades.

The noise trails off around dawn.

Should we remember to leave 

a trail of pills

to find our way out 

once day breaks?