Spring 2006 - Volume 28, Number 2

Gulliver

Love you know how it is
to be strange, to be looked at
and be strange; tall
and fat with loneliness.

But look at us: we’re rulers
of cities! bankers
and typists!      Still
I can’t shake off

that island feeling, even now:
always watching where I step,
half expecting some ant
to look up and yell Freak!

-By Andrew Ratner