Fantasies of What Might Have Been

 

A man sat in a chair

Beside me today.

He asked what book

I was reading.

 

I flustered a moment

And said, I just bought it.

 

                "A book a friend

                 Told me about."

 

My face flushed

                (He looked nice)

His face flushed

We stammered

Another sentence or two.

 

My friend came in

And sat beside me.

His friend came in and suggested

They sit somewhere else.

 

I never saw him again.

 

 

B. Benjamin                                                                                         

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