Going Home
by Kathleen Kimball-Baker
She waited on the bench, noticed a house key to her right.
Bummer, she thought. She’d lost hers before, too.
Her bus arrived and she boarded.
Three blocks south, an old man limped.
I can never go back.
A young couple peered into the grimy window.
“I can see us growing old here,” she smiled.
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