An Ordinary Life by B. H. Fairchild

Author:B. H. Fairchild
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2022-12-08T00:00:00+00:00

Well, the season of dreams is over. Boston finally won,

the Cubs three years ago, and my son’s hatred of a world

where the only story is that somebody wins and

somebody loses has dimmed with the stadium lights.

I walk through crowded streets, listening to car horns

in the distance, a lone shout somewhere nearby,

the scuff and click of heels not far behind me,

people forever lost in the great puzzle of their lives,

going home, or wanting to go home, or perhaps walking

to the nearest bar, as I am, for it is for many a kind of home,

where the voice of Patsy Cline rises from the jukebox

and kind faces emerge slowly from the dark,

and I say, hi mom, hello father, hello my excellent

sister, hello my doomed and incurably sad son.

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