Tuesday, October 10, 2017
Saw an Old Man
I was standing on the platform on Kings Highway waiting on the F train to take me to the city when I saw an elderly man sitting on the bench. I knew this man since I was a child, seen him around my neighborhood; standing upright and boisterous. He was the kind of man who would walk into a room and everyone would know it before they even recognized his face. He had that dynamic mystique, while not good looking and fit; he had a persona that was like an open door promising warmth and good cheer. So many scenes swept me up in a conspiracy of time travel that I felt dizzied by the theater of it all. He sat there and had a look on his face of confusion? As if he had gotten off the train at an unfamiliar stop somewhere? Or was it his eyes brows rising on the outer parts, sinking in the inner; his face unevenly shaved and his shirt unevenly buttoned up that made him seem lost?
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2017 at 12:09PM,
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Jaclyn Smith,
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October 10,
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TALES FROM THE F TRAIN
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