12/29/12 2:50pm – 12/12/13 12:21pm
would you like a bag with that?
(seventeen days shy of a year)
(only doubt him doubting himself iii)
“whether or not he or she would like a bag is not
the answer worth having.
whether or not i have a bad memory or am not listening is
the question worth asking.”
-c.l. swann 2013
i
“would you like a bag with that?”,
i asked knowing full and well
the absurd short-term would take
the answer and never tell:
two times
iii
could be that i saw his lips mouth
the single word he was saying
but when it came to reading them
my attention wasn’t paying:
thirty times
iv
or did i ever even ask
or am i psyching myself out?
my second guessing turned a third
while casting shadows of a doubt:
ten times
“watching a man lose his mind to a bag”
-c.l. swann 2013