a neighbor
ninety two years old
dead
silence coated sunlight
no shadow, no music for two nights
pale daughters wail
his photographs,disgusted
have decided to turn away their faces
memories water-lilies lost dogs
why don't they return
or die
locked in a single room
in a mile of mountain
old man sat on the tree
smoking a beedi
and watched down the road
one mile of mountain
leering
as inmates watch TV in a mental ward
for seventeen years
same old show
wandering Jews
thirteenth tribe of Israel
awkward seven foot tall people
tired of heroism
weary of war
and the tense joy when you really want to shoot someone
and orders say no so you shoot your comrade in the leg and then shoot the enemy and both of you were really engaged to one black widow that goes by many names
Jew met a China man
in the mile of mountain
they decided
to get naked
and stare like a stone
at the old man in the tree
then he dies on a hot sunny day
