why?

Nicholas Petrone
Sep 8, 2018 · 2 min read

just what is he looking at

on that park bench

I can see no book to take him to another place

I see no phone from which to click on the rest of the world

with which to assume our birthright of omniscience

I see no beer cans and smell nothing kind so he must not be deep into anything

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Nicholas Petrone

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Born Again Transcendentalist. Writing about life, death and everything in between.

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