Let's rent hotel rooms by Melanie Browne

and chip ice for
our drinks
the old fashioned way
binge watch
murder movies
and swim
in over chlorinated pools
We'll start a riot
if they don't leave
a bag of popcorn
or if the Keurig
stops working,
Walk across the street
to IHOP &
stuff ourselves
with pancakes


Melanie Browne is a poet and fiction writer living in Texas. She has been published in many online journals and anthologies including Citizens for Decent Literature Press, Every Day Poets, and Poetry Superhighway.