The Total Light Process by James Baker Hall

Author:James Baker Hall [Baker Hall, James]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780813187655
Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2021-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

NAMES

the graying balding fellow tall a little

stooped a shy smile supporting-role mentality

after ten plus comfortable years

together at functions and on elevators

what possessed us to lean forward

that time and exchange names

to lean back embarrassed

then and thereafter

no excuse now for not knowing

who the other was

look out

the next time I saw the man

I avoided him

and the next or

was it he me now

soon I disliked the very sight

of him and wondered how long

before he retired or died

and he too

with me maybe

who knows

everything got that way

I had to change jobs

go friendless without being aware of it

I got a divorce

I’m not blaming that poor innocent man

I’m not blaming anyone

I’m telling how

I got here watching the obits

for our forgotten names

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