j...
		-----------------------------------------------------------

		came late read last
		said:

		i lost the poem i
		wrote for tonight
		was laughing we
		were laughing

		how pretty and sad and blonde she was
		haven't seen prettier
		haven't seen sadder
		how laughing she was how
		one poem she
		said:

		this is called n...
		...burries head in breast in hair

		lover?  sister?  another
		girl like her?
		yeah another.
		mother.  come back n...
		...let us live like we did
		before.  the divorce.

		took the lectern
		looked around
		said:

		my name is j...

		didn't say her last name
		smiled.  didn't say.
		how pretty she was how
		sad she was how
		she said she lost the poem then
		read about n...

		haven't seen prettier.
		(so i looked away)
		haven't seen sadder.
		(so i wrote about her)

		we were laughing
		from the other
		from the other poems
		and she was laughing
		how sad she


			Marek Lugowski
			22 July 1998
			Chicago, Illinois