Two of a Kind
written by: Ken Gosse
I’d been waiting for Godot
since a long, long time ago
then got a note from Bartleby
who told me that it shouldn’t be
much longer until they would show
(then Bartleby wrote this to me:
“I’d rather not be on the spot.
PS
Since then, I’ve learned, also,
my friend has somewhere else to go.”)
NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR:
Godot is a character from Samuel Beckett’s 1949 play “Waiting for Godot.” Bartleby is a character from Herman Melville’s 1856 short story “Bartleby, The Scrivener: A Story Of Wall-street.” Of course, it’s not known whether they ever met.
Ken Gosse prefers writing short, rhymed verse with traditional meter usually filled with whimsy and humor. First published in First Literary Review–East in November 2016, since then in Pure Slush, Home Planet News Online, Spillwords, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, and others. Raised in the Chicago suburbs, now retired, he and his wife have lived in Mesa, AZ, over twenty-five years with rescue cats and dogs underfoot.
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