Albert Huffstickler

Old Acquaintance - Albert Huffstickler

It was like talking to a dead person.

I heard about people I hadn’t seen in thirty years

and didn’t care for at the time.

It was like walking through a graveyard

and having a corpse pop out of every hole.

It was like working hard for a hundred years

then finding out that your life counted for nothing.

It was like dreaming that you died

then waking to find that you hadn’t

but everyone else had.

first published in Lummox Journal, V. 5, July 1999, San Pedro CA


	Old Acquaintance - Albert Huffstickler It was like talking to a dead person. I heard about people I hadn’t seen in thirty years and didn’t care for at the time. It was like walking through a graveyard and having a corpse pop out of every hole. It was like working hard for a hundred years then finding out that your life counted for nothing. It was like dreaming that you died then waking to find that you hadn’t but everyone else had. first published in Lummox Journal, V. 5, July 1999, San Pedro CA