Seam
definition: a similar line made by joining
together two sections along their edges
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Wearing a faded yellow I Love Belize
t-shirt and oil stained pants, an ageless
black man, his eyes clouded with cataracts,
stood in the office of the Sunset Motel,
trying to buy a little time from the out
of sight voice inside the unlit room
behind the front desk.
In the space between them and the pause
that followed, an episode of Baywatch
returned to the muted TV, a station
wagon, with a trailer hitched to the back,
emptied a family into the parking lot
and the last of the sun dipped behind
a building across the street; persuading
a yawning black & white cat to sit up,
arch her back and change seats.
