[New-Poetry] Sonnet: The Defiant Asking of Questions . . .

[Halvard Johnson]

Sonnet: The Defiant Asking of Questions in the Face
            of Permanent Ontological Uncertainty

I want to know why so few of us wonder why so many of us,
when asked "Who is it?" after someone answers
our phone call or after we buzz an apartment from the lobby,

respond with "It's me," (I know, I know, it should be "It's I"--
we're nobody's fool), never doubting for
a moment that whoever's answering that phone or that buzz

will know that it's us and not some other "me" who might
have placed that phone call or rung that buzzer,
are surprised, if not agitated, when the answerer up

in the apartment or at the other end of the line, says "Thanks
so much for your time" and hangs up the phone
or releases the intercom button, not even dreaming that we

might in fact be the me he or she had been
expecting to call or even drop by for a visit.




Hal

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