What if the aging bureaucrat a department-head
in mossy gray tweed sports-coat, red & gold rep tie
and button-down blue Oxford
his receding afro gray-freaked & tightly clipped
what if he sits alone
on a park bench across the street
tapping the fingers of his left hand
on the so-called bottom-line
the Center for Tobacco Control’s 2005 Budget unstable in his lap
while the blood-orange oriole
machine-embroidered onto his baseball cap
watches or appears to watch at any rate
a green fly folding &
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