the wall

Women
claim the chairs
next to them with their
purses-

Little walls.
Little boarders.
keeping you away.

saving a seat
perhaps for no one
perhaps for a ghost
or
perhaps
the for the one that got away all those years ago.

(Maybe she still thinks he might come back)

Either way, the
seat is taken.

Occupied 

And you will either have to find another

Seat

Or 

Stand

(With your right hand 

over your heart)

For
They've claimed the chair
for Themselves
God
and
Country

13'