Oh, wow, I suppose so....
Doug
On 2012-02-15, at 5:44 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
> He is pacing the cafeteria,
> not like an animal, more an actor,
> forced voice rising, as if changing a gear,
> each time that he turns and strides quickly back
> before he turns again, the words climbing.
> Slowly, but getting quicker, he's taking
> more of shared ground under his influence.
>
> "Excuse me," says a voice somewhere below.
> He locates the source of interruption
> and mimes a query. "Would you mind going away?
> and perhaps talking more quietly even so?"
> It makes no sense. He does not understand.
> To make this clear, he says: 'I'm on the phone.'
> "I understand," the sound explains,"but I
> am not on the phone and do not want to be."
>
> It is utterly ridiculous.
> 'It's a free country,' he shouts at a squeak,
> the little one at the bottom of space.
> "It is not," that voice says from far away,
> "as you are proving. Please do not make me
> kill you. I suppose you have some purpose."
>
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