authentic
Armani suit, Bruno Magli shoes
white bread wristwatch
privilege-bestowed expression
of distance and disdain
in his dreams at night
this distance disappears
he too sobs for what is lost
and what has never been
like any chastened garden child
who first meets death, and comprehends
the end of journey
in the beginning
he takes pills
for the tears on his cheeks
when he wakes
