“X-masis Coming” – Michael Sowa
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last week I interpreted for a man
from Morocco, his French wasn’t
sufficient for him to hold an
interview with his insurance’s
medical examiner, I was the
intermediary
he’d been hit by a truck, a
“camion”, he called it, not at all a
small vehicle, sustained bruises
and chronic pain that significantly
restrained him, he was 63, the
driver, turning right against his
red light, hadn’t seen him
a few days ago on my own way to
the airport, a man got onto the bus
in a wheelchair, found his assigned
place behind the wall of the driver’s
seat, at the next stop another man
got on with a cane and a metal brace
along his lower left limb, and sat on
the bench in front of the first man
jovially the two began to compare
each other’s situation
both had been hit by a car turning
right on a red, neither would ever
walk right again
drive carefully, the one you hit might
be an angel, trumpeting, ironically,
caution to the world
or is it, tragically, irony
Richard
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