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Jim Foritano, a Somerville Bagel Bard, sent us a poem.

Jim Foritano

They Say...

I’m good at

small talk. Fantastic,

really!

I want to make

myself understood

to European

intellectuals.

I see them slouching

in corners in sullen

two’s and three’s.

Our hostess drags

me back to center-stage

pats my head and begs me

to just stay put!

I grab a waiter’s passing

tray, stand him where I

stood,  pasted

with an acquiescent

smile,

and will myself into

company too slow to reach

my passing drinks

but learning how

I feel…

parched

at heaven’s gate.

— Jim Foritano

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