(after which the account goes out)
LUNCH
Beyond me
why these two women
take me to lunch
on my last day here
not hitting on each other
not interested but the mind
for a few seconds may run riot
and so what
so I get to hear gossip
as though I were not there,
words between these two friends
about things I don't quite get
but they include me and it is
perhaps gratitude because one has
cancer that recedes and flows back
an ugly brackish tidepool
and months ago she told me
cheery no self-pity and
I was ashamed of myself and
asked her if she'd mind
if I remembered her each morning
and she said Thank You Yes
and I did and I do
and maybe it will help
and maybe it won't go beyond
getting me a great free lunch
but of course not free because
I've truly paid in advance.
KTW/1-11-06
--
Kenneth Wolman
Proposal Development Department
Room SW334
Sarnoff Corporation
609-734-2538
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
-Douglas Adams
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