You Must Assume Other Names Poem by RIC BASTASA

you must assume other names
as i too shall assume

a lot of numbers
this is the comfort that i still want to enjoy

numb numbers
poems without a lot of words to make you
remember me

what do you feel now?
i know. You feel like a page of a book.
A torn page.

You feel like you are walking past
The numbered rooms in the hospital

Finding your way through same faced halls
Left turn, right turn

Until you find yourself at a certain dead end.
You see a bench. You sit there.

There is no window. There is no door.
Just the length of the hall and then the silence
Of this corridor.

It is. Indeed, it is.