Great Tubba Ponders What It Is Like to Have Lived for Many Years in the Same City

He looked at me

with a leery eye,

Great Tubba, he

of the wandering eye.

“What used to be a blank slate

is now covered with scars.

Everything once said freedom to me;

it said, sweetly, the future.

Everything now says fate to me

and reminds me of my war

and my defeat.”