dotlit: 'Contiki People'

The Online Journal
of Creative Writing

Edited by Donna Lee Brien (general), Philip Neilsen (poetry), and Axel Bruns (hypermedia and Webmaster)

ISSN 1444-2817

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	Contiki People Melissa Petrakis


	They come with their backpacks these child travelers these Big Mac samplers of culture.		1

	Huddled together against the storm of languages which are not English.		2

	You can see them in small denimed clans at train stations clutching belts of paper money.		3

	You can hear them loud warding off the spirit that is fear.		4