A Fish Who Worships Fire

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A Fish Who Worships Fire  by John MacBeath Watkins A sharp-faced man at the newsstand thinks he sees me talking to myself, but he’s wrong. I haven’t been on speaking terms in years. I’ve told myself too many lies, called myself too many names. My lips move, my voice murmurs, but it’s not a conversation. I use the isolation of my life to compose elegies to strangers. I have n o books, the library kicked me ou t for falling asleep when I got warm, and the people at the newsstand won't let me touch their merchandise. Except for newspapers salvaged from the trash, I have regressed to a preliterate way of life. For untold thousands of years  before writing was invented, the great literature of cultures was passed on through a verbal tradition. Rhythm and rhyme made it possible for generations of storytellers to tell the great epics verbatim, and they enable me to remember the details of my life and help me o vercome my great fear that hunger an d isolation will destroy my mind.  No one touches me, no one speaks to me, except the cop who tells me to move on. It’s against the law in Seattle to recline upon the sidewalk, so I choose between slow steps from nowhere to eternity , or standing with the patience o f a stork, or reclining against the law. Some of you might recognize my face. It’ s a bad face, a sinister face, a face that all humanity 1

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