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First Place Winner: Kaitlyn Placsko
Public Washroom
Quiet
clean, nice paint job
not like it isn't pretty
but so quiet
Resting, breathing
clean foreign bathroom smell
Feels like night like streetlights like
cool night in Vancouver young and
walking with parents
"old" enough to feel
"young" enough not to know
everything that goes on in Vancouver at night
(' s winter break)
learnt that can't last forever
Water pushing out of the
tap with more force than necessary
Soap smells Kimberly-Clarky
Bubbles of waiting at the office
for my mom to finish work
foam up and pop
before I've noticed them
Water's too hot
Waste a wad of brown
paper towel softer than
the stuff at (elementary) school
that tears (back then) at my runny nose
I've forgotten kleenex
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