Coterie
written by: Craig R Kirchner
The group met at Randy’s,
no golf, but a pool,
and he had the event catered,
with beef, sausage,
and group staple – cold beer.
If you add up our ages
and divide by the number of years
we’ve known each we’re all teenagers again
leaning against the wall at the drugstore,
shooting the shit.
Watching the interactions,
I kept thinking coterie or clique.
Coterie, on inspection, merited,
intimate and exclusive,
and the definitive –
common interest or purpose.
Clique on the other hand
seemed to stress
small, and
do not allow others to join.
After consideration of decades of comradery,
I decided that it was a relatively large group,
that had no reason to exclude,
since there was nothing
resembling a waiting list.
The common purpose fifty years later,
is to keep the crazy going,
with the same assholes,
exercising a unique version of intimacy,
and so, I decided on “Coterie.”
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