Rest Stop Bathroom

He sat in the stall,
Pants up, trying to hide
What he was doing as though it
Were dirtier, somehow, than the
Business this stinking place was built for.
When I pushed the door
Open and he looked up at me and with
His mouth said, “Do you need…something?”
Which only proved what his eyes
Were saying, which was, “This is living?”

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