Saturday, December 1, 2012

Other Shoes

I know her. Fine person,
hard worker, honest, sincere,
good folk – observed for years.

I don't know her. Learned things,
these years later. Surprised, confused,
befuddled. How could I not have seen
the sum of what I knew was assumptions,
believing public fronts.

Judge not. Either pro or con
you don't know what you've surmised.
My job is not to evaluate her.
I keep my side of the street clean,
work my program. Leave the pedestals
and barrel bottoms to others.
Who she is is no business of mine.
 Who I am is my business
one day at a time.

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