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Untitled – City Street in Winter

by George Vukelich

There will be rotary plows on the city street –

Doors and windows locked in sleet –

You can bet your boots the storms will be whoppers

And they’ll all be followed by belly floppers.

Sleds and toboggans, skates and skis –

Bundled-up small fry with snowpatched knees –

The highest hill, the longest thrill –

the young ones never get their fill

We old ones watch them with a chill

and figure out the heating bill.

*published in Wisconsin Tales and Trails – Winter 1962