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THE HOBBYISTS

 

Kids no more, though captains of chugging toys

that sweep across the Sunday morning pond,

they grow the way they wish to, with the boys.

Two-foot destroyer and three-foot launch respond

to radio devices.  An aerial wand

waves over each controller’s head.  The scene

is masculine: sweat, docks and gasoline.

... 

  

(For full text see the Kindle ebook The Nature of Things (Collected Poems) by Alan Marshfield)

  

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