Found Poem

the other night at work...

[the janitor passes, pauses]

are you writing
poems? my wife
has them too, i only have
one, was given it
for times when people
leave my life. it’s simple,
small, but it was
given to me to
read at funerals or for
eulogies.

do you wake up with
them in the middle of the night? that
used to happen to my wife, she
wrote some beautiful things
but then it stopped.
it comes from right
here, doesn’t it.
you be sure to keep
it then, it’s a
gift.

and so i was moved to write this, for the both of us.