Took 34 years (I invited him so long ago) but yesterday
he actually arrived. Called and said WAZE took him
Somewhere Else he was near a church didn’t know which one
I didn’t either drive someplace that has a name I said
he went to the Cairo Durham Elementary School
parking lot past the Dollar Store and there he
was good friend from so long ago still a good friend now
we met through Virginia maybe she figured we were
both Jews so could be friends Virginia a mysterious thinker
we talked that first day years ago about his kibbutz
and my thinking maybe I should have stayed in Israel
(I’m glad I didn’t but so long ago I loved it there) and we
connected the way some people do. Hard to say why.