INVISIBLE

HIGH SOCIETY - Magritte

Herman Hesse

taught me

the trick to being

invisible.

Don’t remember

which book

I read so many
a half-century ago

waking up in Chicago

I did the trick

a few times.                

First time

on south side

hot streets

blaring and glaring

I was scared –

I’d never seen

so many black people

in one place

at one time

I worked the magic

and was thinking

this is amazing

no one is paying attention –

I’m invisible.

The fact of the matter

that I didn’t put together

‘til later –

nobody was paying attention
because nobody much cared.

There were

other opportunities

don’t know

if it ever worked.

The only way to know

was for me not to see

me...

Truth -

cigarettes, dope, and whiskey

they worked.

RW

Seattle

5/1/18