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GEOFF DEAN

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Here am I

Old men walk old dogs tentatively on frosty pavements.

      Old women bent & gnarled from life’s servitude

                   sigh over lost years as they stare

                          into empty letter boxes.

 

  Out of hospital once again staving off the inevitable,

              wincing at the distant wail of a siren

                              but not alarmed,

           knowing this time it does not wail for me,

 

               Nevertheless, this is my street, my lot

               I wave my walking stick as salutation

                            that I am one of them.

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GEOFF DEAN is a short story writer whose most recent book is A Literary Lunch [Roaring Forties Press].