Tag: hotels
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Niagara by Erika Meitner
White towels folded into swans ‡‡with their heads touching — ‡‡‡their hearted bodies trail the floral bedspread: polyester, ‡‡used over and over again. ‡‡‡The bed itself casts a shadow on the desolate paneling, ‡‡O bed. O motel. O girl ‡‡‡in white pants — you are voluminous and shine like the yellow doors ‡‡on rows of…
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My Grandmother Was a Waitress in Niagara Falls by FJ Doucet
My grandmother at forty woke up before dawn to dress, put on make-up, and curl her hair. She was divorced, a mother of five, and a waitress at the Best Western hotel in Niagara Falls. The job started at eight o’clock but, always, she left her apartment on Main Street early. Turned the key in…
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A Dialogue by W.M. et al.
W. M.: We are here today and gone tomorrow. E. B.: Well, why don’t you stop a week at the hotel? The beds and grub are good. C. C.: Yes, but devilish dear. Source: Table Rock Album and Sketches of the Falls and Scenery Adjacent. Buffalo: Steam Press of Thomas and Lathrops, copyright by Jewett, Thomas & Co.,1856c.1848 This…
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Untitled by Anonymous
Visitors, whene’er you wish To feast on poultry, flesh and fish, ‡‡‡‡And right good wine, Leave your fare across the river, And like a hearty right good liver, ‡‡‡‡At the Pavilion dine. Read about the Pavilion Hotel Source: Table Rock Album and Sketches of the Falls and Scenery Adjacent. Buffalo: Steam Press of Thomas and Lathrops,…
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The Veranda by Jane Urquhart
urquhart veranda Nineteen hair piled high afternoons on the wooden verandah of Kick’s Hotel ‡‡‡‡‡‡‡where her mother ‡‡‡‡‡‡‡dressed in black ‡‡‡‡‡‡‡moves like a cloud ‡‡‡‡‡‡‡behind the soft screen door ‡‡‡‡‡‡‡fabricating ‡‡‡‡‡‡‡tiny wreaths ‡‡‡‡‡‡‡from light brown hair grandmother is passing the time around like cupcakes at nineteen rhythms of porch swings father and brother recently dead…