Like Being Friends with Ghosts I like being friends with people that are
older than me because they know things. It is not
that people my age don’t know things, precisely,
but they have not yet relaxed into it. Sometimes
people reach a certain age that is right
for them, when conversing with them is like
lying on brushed cotton sheets, that is the age
I like to be friends with people at, because
friends like that are a luxury in a life where
I waited years for my first scrap of silk.
Like J, when he was 17, at the time it
was exactly the right age for him to be.
Alice, I think, will be there in her thirties.
I in my 60’s. Mrs. Johnson was there, I
believe Sir is. The age that ghosts are.
If it were possible to miss one’s ghosts then
I would sometimes miss mine.


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