Who'd Have Thought?

One's apocalypse may strike someone else
As mundane. A man in a pew in a church
Loses faith, and must rise and walk out
As family and friends watch in wonder
At first, later dismay. A woman, a waitress,
The face of a cafe, is fired. She cries as
She goes to her boss, who pretends to be
Steely, to ask for her tips. The child, in
Clothes that her mother has made, being
Teased in a hallway by trendy-dressed kids,
And a man, who is married, too old, too in
Love with a skittish young woman, who's
One-third his age. Each of them is undone
By a private catastrophe others would
Label mundane.



Poetry by Lawrence Beck The PoetBay support member heart!
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Written on 2016-01-04 at 23:56

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