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Thinking of a past vacation while fighting traffic.

The Appeal of Tangier

by C2

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as I fight weekend traffic through a downtown filled with hipsters in clever graphic t-shirts pulled along by their leashed rescue dogs I consider giving up the Farmer's Market remember instead a summer in Tangier spent lounging on the patio at Cafe Hafa with its view of the port and sailboats in the Straits the cramped tables of old men playing bartok and smelling of an unfamiliar spice the joy of wandering the souks of the medina bright spools of silk and hand-pulled rugs berbers sitting on their tarps outside the Bab Fass selling figs, squash, peas and pumice stones everywhere the noise of negotiation the image of Burroughs in room nine of the hotel El Muniria writing Naked Lunch between binges of alcohol and kief looking out his window past the ancient Phoenician tombs to those steep shadowed side streets filled with sex and death with pickpockets and old peddlers offering salted almonds and an occasional view of the sea

Writing Prompt The challenge is to write a poem that includes the words provided. Your poem can be of any type. The words: graphic - joy - death - spice

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