great conversations like these
he tries talking to me
about shakespeare
i tell him it’s my wife
who likes shakespeare
tries with polar exploration
shackleton, amundsen, scott
all those cats
i tell him they’re my wife’s bag too
tries with baseball, hockey,
football, the budget,
our socialist president, islamic extremists,
the tea party, israel, the job
npr funding, work schedules,
tries shakespeare again, kit marlowe,
classical music, jazz, rock and roll
whatever
until he’s blue in the face
and out of topics
then we sit there in near silence
just his radio playing faintly
having, in my opinion,
one of the best conversations
that we’ve ever had.
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