The Incipient Novelist

"I sense that Maury will be coming home soon.
I sense that because Maury comes home at 3 o'clock
and I come home at 2 o'clock."
He is not a fat man but he is burly.
He wears glasses and his nose points
into the air, seeming to slice its way.
"It will always be that way," he says.
"Some people will hear this."
"And some people won't like it."

He looks away
pushing his head to the other side
of the steel post
as he narrates the novel.
He must be a reader
though he doesn't look it,
because he uses the same kind
of language as Lord of the Rings
when he speaks.

There are some odd looks
from people who aren't used to
hearing dictation being recited
into the void on the #92 bus.
But it seems like a hell of a story to me.