A Mysterious Naked Man

A mysterious naked man has been reported

on Cranston Avenue. The police are performing

the usual ceremonies with coloured lights and sirens.

Almost everyone is outdoors and strangers are conversing

excitedly

as they do during disasters when their involvement is

peripheral.

‘What did he look like? ‘ the lieutenant is asking.

‘I don’t know, ‘ says the witness. ‘He was naked.’

There is talk of dogs-this is no ordinary case

of indecent exposure, the man has been seen

a dozen times since the milkman spotted him and now

the sky is turning purple and voices

carry a long way and the children

have gone a little crazy as they often do at dusk

and cars are arriving

from other sections of the city.

And the mysterious naked man

is kneeling behind a garbage can or lying on his belly

in somebody’s garden

or maybe even hiding in the branches of a tree,

where the wind from the harbour

whips at his naked body,

and by now he’s probably done

whatever it was he wanted to do

and wishes he could go to sleep

or die

or take to the air like Superman.

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• A Jog-Trot Pair by Thomas Hardy by Thomas Hardy
• A Dream Or No by Thomas Hardy by Thomas Hardy
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• The Last Man by Thomas Campbell by Thomas Campbell
• The Dirge of Wallace by Thomas Campbell by Thomas Campbell
• The Battle of the Baltic by Thomas Campbell by Thomas Campbell
• Song to the Evening Star by Thomas Campbell by Thomas Campbell
• Ode to Winter by Thomas Campbell by Thomas Campbell
• Ode to the Memory of Burns by Thomas Campbell by Thomas Campbell
• Love And Madness by Thomas Campbell by Thomas Campbell
• Lord Ullin’s Daughter by Thomas Campbell by Thomas Campbell
• Hohenlinden by Thomas Campbell by Thomas Campbell
• Gertrude of Wyoming by Thomas Campbell by Thomas Campbell
• Freedom And Love by Thomas Campbell by Thomas Campbell
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