"I WATCHED A MAN . . . "
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I WATCHED A MAN insert his whole grown body into a small glass box. With a flourish he dismantled and fell limp inside. Is that all this is? How small a box is my lifetime? How large, please, is a human being? The man was smiling. He sat behind the X his legs had marked, unsocketed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

From The Prayers of Others by David Keplinger, 2006

New Issues Poetry & Prose, Western Michigan University, Dept. of English,
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