WHITE BREAD

He was nondescript, innocuous. He named his dog Dog. His cat was called Cat. He grew daring with his parakeet and named it Wings. He wore beige from head to toe. Even his Sunday best, his “weddings and funerals suit” he called it, was beige. People wondered if his underwear was beige. He swore that it was, but with just enough of a smirk people couldn’t be certain. His house was painted beige as were his roof shingles. His car was beige inside and out. All his furniture was pine or a light oak. When he died, they found a note with instructions on the funeral, the burial, every detail, on beige paper, of course. And they found the beige suit bag in the closet with the rainbow colored suit that he was to be buried in.

YOUNGER MAN BLUES

Going through files of photos
I occasionally see a younger man
who is someone I should know.

He doesn’t appear often, and I
am fairly certain I was never
the photographer when
those photos were taken.

He is rather short, often seems
to wear a hat, is otherwise
rather nondescript.

Still, I would like to talk
to him, as I suspect we would
agree on a broad range of things.

If you see him, ask him
to contact me, for the mirror
only shows him far older.