BUNT: LITERARY JOURNAL FOR NEW POETS: Minor Fable

Minor Fable

Guy imagines smoking long cigarettes,
Drinking a tolerable cabernet
Eating daffodils or Delicates.

At work: Was told
Please take the package.

A washcloth/overthecounter offered.
Paperwork unfinished, Guy walked.
Never returned
(just to leave again).

Pretending you're dead is hard work
Pretending you're hard at work is unbearable

He retold this to many people.
For him, it was important.

It would''ve been nice to say he lived to be one hundred,
Children and grandkids gathering to hear it.

--AARON COHEN, PORTLAND,
COPYRIGHT 2010

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