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incomprehensible

Carl “Papa” Palmer

My boss asks, “What are your plans after retirement?”

When I express my desire to write, he inquires,
“About what?”

I smile and say,
“Poetry.”

He suddenly sits back
far as possible from me with a look
as if I have just come out of the closet.

“Poetry? All these years working with men
and machines, and you want to write poems?”

Should I mention my closet also contains a son-in-law
with pierced ears and a son who admits having had a pedicure?

He’d never understand.

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