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One time I saw a man


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One time I saw this:

I saw a man coming down the middle of the road

With a hoe on his shoulder and from the hoe swung a bucket.


There were no cars on the road.

No cars coming or going.

Only he was coming.


When I saw this man I asked myself,

Who is this man?

Why is he coming like that?

And where is he going?


It seemed like this must mean something.

I thought it was special.

I was glad that I was there to see him

Coming along like that.


He was walking down the road

Like it belonged to him.

I think he was wearing a hat, a baseball hat.


I think he was an archetype,

The archetype of a new kind of man.

That was a long time ago.

I don't know what happened to him.


I don't know what happens to any of us.


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Gary Lindorff is a poet, writer, blogger and author of five nonfiction books, three collections of poetry, "Children to the Mountain", "The Last recurrent Dream" (Two Plum Press), "Conversations with Poetry (coauthored with Tom Cowan), and (more...)
 

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