This Day of the Week is Doyobi

A Flash Found Poem

October 23, 1999 was the 296th day of the year 1999 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 69 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Saturday.

If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Doyōbi.

A person born on this day will be 22 years old today. If that same person saved a Nickel every day starting at age 5, then by now that person has accumulated $328.60 today.

If that same person saved a happy family saved a boyfriend or a bar mitzvah or a man sabotaging his marriage for a missed phone call from a girl forgetting a boy who would not remember he kissed her during havdallah before forsaking her and her name and a faceless baby who by now would have saved a nickel for every lifeline she lost since Doyobi which rhymes with Tobey a boy who was saved save for his happy family hovering now over another havdallah over a reservoir somewhere specific in the Lower Galilee last week underneath a where and when he can’t return to even with all the nickels that lay beneath the untouched waters like some songs of Solomon do upon my tongue a launching pad for traveling back in time to Doyobi where there is no dollar nor any sense of time nor spaces even between the letters that keep circling back to songs of a primordial light in and around October 23rd, 1999 a Doyobi that rhymes with Tobey a boy saved.

(text for this poem borrowed from dayoftheweek.org)