Beach Lane

by Will Schutt

            Happiness needs a setting.
                          —Robert Pinsky

It’s a tunnel of sorts. They’re all tunnels, I guess,
even Further Lane and Muchmore Drive,
which would have us believe beyond the perfectly glib
off-white palisades lies the answer to an urban
dream. Not everyone who dreams, dreams the beach.

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