Howie Good

 

 

Police and Questions

 
Identity

 

  One day it just happens,
a man I never met before,
or wanted to meet,

mistakes me for someone else,
an old classmate’s adopted brother,
and that night for the first time

I can distinguish individual words
in the buzz of background conversation,
after which it happens a lot,

people stop me on the concourse to ask
if I am who they think I am,
and when I look into their faces,

the slanting, slate gray rain,
some have the eyes of victims,
some, the eyes of torturers.



 

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