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The Curious People
Life is a brilliant red in Beijing.
It is communism
It is blood
It is everywhere and too thick to notice
My mundane was unique
so they stole half written postcards
to see the strange letters
and they leaped into
photos to see what boring scenes
I found interesting.
60 miles sprawled with tenements
30 million existences of sameness
and me
who made the comrades curious
I stopped
and l looked
at a nonexistent spot on the sidewalk
A throng solidified instantly
Switching glances between me
and the spotless I stared at
screamed whispers moved
in tiny waves of absurd
and serious
The disbelievers
gathered
like an anti-Fatima
as I bent to pick up
a closely examined nothing
Without letting on a smile
or looking in a single face
I walked away through a parting
sea of people
carefully holding air
between my fingers
as if it were an emperor's ring
I became "the man who glances"
They waved to me
they followed me
I was an expected circus
that had come to entertain
the billion.
J. Kevin Wolfe always has had that problem of looking out the window. He was kicked out of Algebra II in the 10th grade for it. A few decades later,
his cube has a view of a pine that gets irritated at the lightest of breezes. There are passionate sunsets in the winter and a constant flux of cars
overtop of 90% of the asphalt in the valley. They pay him to look out this window now. Never underestimate how far your weaknesses will take you.
Sometimes he looks out other windows. He calls that poetry.
J. Kevin Wolfe's poems have appeared in over 60 ezines and in a dozen print publications. 'The Year of Purple Lawn Furniture' is
a collection of new poems. J. Kevin Wolfe's poems have appeared in over 60 ezines and in a dozen print publications. His ebook,
'The Year of Purple Lawn Furniture', is the first lanchable Palm OS ebook.
'The Year of Purple Lawn Furniture' An ebook of poetry by J. Kevin Wolfe.
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