Awakening

Awakening
Maybe I’ll retrace my November walk today from Verdun High School to 260 Second Avenue in memory of the day that John F.Kennedy was shot & killed down in Dallas
I will go out and look for me,the young man with nowhere to become or go to
Never was anybody ever so alone
Never was anybody so out of place
wondering how to make his exit
on November 22 1963
The news hit Montreal just before class was dismissed
The other people in the school corridors were already talking but I couldn’t hear what they weren’t saying cause they couldn’t see the one person who wasn’t supposed to be there
And walking into 260 Second Avenue and going up the stairs to my room
to my room to my room
“Did you hear the news?”my mother said
my mother said
“John F.Kennedy is dead”
he's dead
and then and there suddenly they were all looking from the outside at me
I could be seen