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KOLOT  –  Nobody’s Talking

By Andy Weil

 

This poem, says its author, “is about transparency…and the lack of it in almost any kind of relationship.”

 

“Do you miss that kind of action, sir?”

“No…I miss that kind of clarity.”

—   from the film “Three Days of the Condor”

 

I sense it around me
from the people I know;
conversations are surface,
my suspicions now grow.

 

A tic near their mouth line
and no eye contact,
is starting to turn
this fiction to fact.

 

My presence alone
makes them overly kind,
while the deafening silence
leaves a tense state of mind.
“Just out with it now,
can’t we please clear the air?
The truth I can handle,
hide and seek lends despair.”

 

I’ve lined up each instance
and see where it’s leading,
I hear it from you,
my heart goes on bleeding.

 

Straight from the hip
would suture the closure
and quell all your fears
of unwanted exposure.
But… the game must play out
to a grand fever pitch,
’till somebody scratches
that long-ignored itch.

 

And that’s when the dominos
take all in their path,
with the slinging of mud
and raised voices of wrath.

 

It should be so simple
at this age, me and you;
all is resolved
in a sentence or two.
Yet, it’s unfinished business,
shrugged shoulders and balking;
there’s not much to say…
when nobody’s talking.

 

An accomplished poet, Andy Weil is a resident of West Hartford who teaches a poetry course to senior residents of the assisted living facility Hoffman-Summerwood.

 

Andy Weil is a performance poet and humorist (most of the time). He is the founder and facilitator of “ Senior Voices-Expressing Yourself Through Poetry “ programs.

Readers are invited to submit original work on a topic of their choosing to Kolot. Submissions should be sent to judiej@jewishledger.com.

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