Tuesday, August 30, 2011

ABOUT FACE

The faces of those we meet

Show us a bit of the place

Where we find ourselves

This day now


Replete with weather

Drawn down from

Gravity or born of

Days without sun, or happiness


Or maybe, sweet

Ripened apples and

Juicy gossip of yore,

Lay rotting on the floor


We come together

Much as before

But never more

Than when we were


At last without incident

Or consequence

Of mostly sheer

Coincidence


We share the road

You going that way

Me this

Passing on the left.


(You say,

"Stupid Americans,"

I say,

"Mean people everywhere.")

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