WHY ME???
I often ask as I squirm and check my watch and turn to put a foot towards the door…
But on and on and on they ramble.
The theys of the anywhere.
Everywhere I go, they tell me.
Their life stories, precious to them.
Spilled like a common cup of coffee.
Why? Why me?
I hold so many secrets.
Told in the heat of the desert in a beef jerky shop.
Told on a bench in the snow in Central Park.
Told in the swimming pool in a retirement home in Oxnard.
Told on a waterless climb to the top of the Great Wall in China.
What of mine though?
Held so close along with those of the strangers who spill.
What of mine?
— Trish
I often ask as I squirm and check my watch and turn to put a foot towards the door…
But on and on and on they ramble.
The theys of the anywhere.
Everywhere I go, they tell me.
Their life stories, precious to them.
Spilled like a common cup of coffee.
Why? Why me?
I hold so many secrets.
Told in the heat of the desert in a beef jerky shop.
Told on a bench in the snow in Central Park.
Told in the swimming pool in a retirement home in Oxnard.
Told on a waterless climb to the top of the Great Wall in China.
What of mine though?
Held so close along with those of the strangers who spill.
What of mine?
— Trish
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