Cognoscenti

COGNOSCENTI

When the newspapers were delivered
By the boy on the bicycle, every one talked.
But one day the delivery boy
fell off the cliff.
The papers were not delivered any more.
No one talked anymore.
There were many suicides.
One brave citizen decided to climb down
The jagged cliff’s side and bring back
The never-delivered newspapers, now
Old and yellowed. The old newspaper
Were read over and over. Even some
Of the suicides returned to life so they
Could read the old newspapers. People
Were surprised to see someone whose
Funeral they had attended sitting next
To them reading an old newspaper.
One ex-dead man was seen with
The rope with which he had hung himself
Still around his neck as he avidly read
the sport pages.


Duane Locke

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