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Park Bench

I saw you sit at the park bench. Every day you would go to that one bench, reading the paper, feeding the pigeons, minding your own business. Every day I would watch you. I knew how you adjusted your glasses. I knew how you crossed your legs.

I had to come out of hiding. I had to know you. I had to have a name for your face. So before you came to the park bench I sat down and pulled out a newspaper. I looked up when I heard your footsteps. I knew they were your footsteps. You walked to another bench. No-- you couldn’t sit there. That’s not how the story goes. You have to sit here.

The next day I waited for you before I made my move. You walked back to your bench. I strolled up to the other side, trying to act aloof. I sat down, only three feet away from you. I pulled out my day-old paper. My eyes burned through the pages. I felt your breath streaming down my body. I heard your eyelids open and close. Your heat radiated toward me.

I casually looked away from my paper. You were gone.


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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her prose “Leaving for Work”, “Park Bench”, and “Warring Nations” (from her “One Acts” show), all from her performance art poetry book “Chapter 48 (v 1)” live 10/7/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).


This piece is also in the book
Hope Chest in the Attic.

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