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josephine

you are the blind woman who lives downstairs
I had never seen you before
I heard you calling Bill from the hallway
and thought it was a crying cat

you have lived here thirty years
a t.v. a couch a kitchen a phone
that rang to tell you she had died
and he and she and she from cancer

what is it like to watch tv when you can't see
who is the framed beauty in a tux?
my granddaughter, you said proudly
smiling from inside a fluffy pink housecoat

K G Gaspar