Covert Poetics

"Honest Hector"

I met the most honest man
I have ever known​
this morning at the
bus stop and he tried​
to rob me.

I say this though
thievery is not
the most honest
real work but
he knew what he
wanted & tried​
to take it from me.

That is the most
honest way to live.​

© 2008 Zach King-Smith/CT

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