One Bruce Example

For so many years I’ve been trying to write about the people I know the best. Bruce is one of them. He’s almost entirely impossible to capture. But here’s one small and true example.

When the kids
arrived last night
Thanksgiving
tomorrow
they asked Bruce
who’s coming
to dinner.
He brought out
a long list.
Names written
in a Sharpie.
These are
the people
who aren’t coming
this year
he said and then
he read
his list.