Monday, June 17, 2024

Jekel and Hyde Sept. 24, 2013

 

 

 It is not Jekel and Hyde,

 But rather  how to keep ones life

from seeping into the other,

the professions from the personal,

this face from that,

I never knew which one I was speaking to,

except in the dead of night

when she put one face away

and wore only the one

 I most wanted to see,

Day or night face

Knowing so much more

than I ever will

I admire them both

like two different people,

both amazing,

both the kind of people

I would love to meet

One jotting into her cub reporter pad

The other gripping the stem

Of a glass of wine.

Now I meet neither

And wonder from afar

Which she is today

Or may some other

I would not recognize

In passing on the street.

 

 



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