Saturday, July 13, 2019

If you listen (Day 906)

Listen   listen   short story 

to tell    about Sartre 

and Miles and the day I fell 

beneath a Cartagena taxi 

(woke up two or three months 

later   in Chicago   they say)


About old cafés   Lear jets  

sleeping in snow   and   

listen   that hospital   

they saved me (I learned 

how to live there   

from a young soldier

with no legs)


About Jerusalem  Damascus

Antietam   and I’ll let you 

know which candidate 

I voted for (and will again

I’ll explain why   if you listen)


But mostly   I will tell you   

no shit   how a stubborn

90-year-old woman can 

save you   when you lay   

alone and broken 

4,000 miles from home


(c) 2019, by Hannah Six

Image: George Hodan/PublicDomainPictures



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