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[Odler]

Last night, I was at first communion party.

I was with friends, many of them.

Some of them I had not seen in years.

That was new and fresh.

I saw a bunch of guys in their thirties and forties.

They all have gray hair and graying beard.

Some have belly hanging above their thighs.

Most wear focals they call reading glasses.

I saw big houses, I mean big houses; everyone has one.

Houses so huge I feel tired at the simple idea of touring them.

They would fit seventeen apartments the size of mine.

Houses with three-car garages and five TV sets actually in use.

I saw women I no longer recognize.

Some I had not seen since the day they were brides.

I felt estranged, intimidated by their maturity and demeanor.

They are too far from the women I have on dates.

I saw teenagers ?hanging around?.

Much taller than I am, than we all are.

Speaking a lingo, not my language?

They came to kiss or handshake as the progeny of my friends.

I saw this and wondered if that place is where I should be.

I went home late at night and hit my library.

No book or treaty had the answer to my quest.

What I saw is what I saw.

(OdlerRobert Jeanlouie, Sunday, May 05, 2002)