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26

By Eric Wittkopf
26

Held up in traffic I

saw him walk away

from the corner we

were meeting on after

scrawling on that

building with a piece

of chalk the number

26.

No, it’s not a clue,

my therapist said, it’s

not all about you, I

think he probably

was keeping track of

all the times he was

stood up and you were

26.

But I was not born

yesterday, I thought

at him, the way we’d

fought so many times

before inside my head

about things equally

mysterious as number

26.

I won’t regale you

now with all the

things that seem

significant to me, a

license plate, or steps,

or how the alphabet’s

unlucky (two 13’s in

26).

It took three weeks

to track him down

again (the quotient

of 2 and 6) but if

you want a detailed

accounting see my

Journal pp. 116-200 &

26.


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Posted On: February 16, 2023
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