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Duane

John Grey

Whose house is this? he asks.
Whose clocks, whose tables, whose chairs?
His feet sink deep into carpet
where he was sure there’d be hardwood floor.
And strangers are everywhere.
They’ve even their own odd yapping dogs.

Why are you holding my hand,
he inquires of the one with the grayest hair.
And who ordered these ceramics
for the mantel over the fire-place?
Not that I ever had a fireplace.

He scratches his bare head,
wondering why everyone lies about
the time, the year, the place,
even the name of the president.

They show him photo albums...
mmm....hieroglyphics.
A child points and says, this is you.
No, he protests, I would not have
stood for that..
And then a woman hums a melody
that poses as his favorite song.
But he won’t have a bar of it.

Every day, they shunt him
out to the veranda
so he can sit in something
they call the sun.
Well of course he knows
that great yellow blazing orb
in the sky.
Didn’t a balloon slip once
through a child’s awkward fingers?

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