GETTING ON

Seeing her to the subway,





I focused on giving up.





There are separate goodbyes here -





    one for leaving





and one for being left.







Back at the hotel,





I burned my journal in the ash tray -





ever amazed at how little I know.







She said her name was Mi Young,





        pronounced ³me²





- as if to point at me





and say, 





         ³You old.²

© Gregory Myers