Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Someone I cared for

And The Word © Coffee House Press, 1987 Someone I cared for
put it to me: Who
do you think you are?

I went down the list
of all the many
possibilities

carefully — did it
twice — but couldn't find
a plausible one.

That was when I knew
for the first time who
in fact I wasn't.

-- Cid Corman, from And The Word