Monday, May 29, 2017

End of Spring

End of Spring

A week before Memorial Day
Falmouth is a quiet town.
Next week everything will change.

Before Memorial Day
folks gather at Betsy's Diner
or lunch at the Asian Buffet.
The Dollar Store and the Job Lot
supply most needs. Town folks socialize
at charity bazaars on weekends.

After Memorial Day
pricey restaurants on Main Street
with French names need reservations
yet still have waiting lines.
Coffee shops carry strange brews
which need to be explained to townies.
A theater company moves into town
competing with the amateur companies,
and there is enough audiences for all.
The libraries, the Historic Society,
the sea study institutes and
art venues are among those
augmenting their public offerings.
Our guests travel to here and to there
to see and to do.

Visitor from around the country
and around the world are here.
The insular, provincial town
becomes a cosmopolitan place.




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