-1017 verse 1: and his sister's girlfriends came to pass-

the house was frantic

like the parade's crescendo
behind the waving flags

when the heroes
rolled by behind the horses.

nighttime drifted
to the inside from the outside,

the lamps were turned on

and from this side of the television

the evening was always
better than anticipated.

someone once wrote, I think it was me,

that they entered through the kitchen

floating an inch above the linoleum

and even the biblical celebrity could manage

but one quick walk upon the still waters.

but if you lived with them ignoring you
as they did me when passing before your eyes

your mission would have been to report it.

I’m not the only one to witness events
such as these.

I’m simply one of the few men surviving
to tell of them now.

                                                Quequechan