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POETRY

Rescue
by Mary Langer Thompson

I swore I wouldn't help you out again—
after the grade school peeing contest,
after the lost middle school essays,
after the high school report card you changed.
But here I am,
credit card and phone in hand
listening to Celine Dion,
hoping someone answers
by 5:00 p.m.,
before they turn off your power.

Mary Langer Thompson has won poetry and essay awards and is currently a school principal. Her poetry has appeared online and in Miller's Pond, The Peralta Press, Alligator Juniper, Earth's Daughters, Judd's Hill, and San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly and in the anthologies So Luminous the Wildflowers: An Anthology of California Poets (Tebot Bach), A Time of Trial (Hidden Book Press), and Electric Rain (Archer Books). She recently moved to Apple Valley, California with her husband, Dave, to open a new school. Poetry keeps her balanced and sane.