A Man May Change by Marvin Bell

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The following poem was apperciated and posted on facebook on Sunday, April 10, by art aficionado Wayne Chen, a Jamaican.

A MAN MAY CHANGE

As simply as a self-effacing bar of soap

escaping by indiscernible degrees in the wash water

is how a man may change

and still hour by hour continue in his job.

There in the mirror he appears to be on fire

but here at the office he is dust.

So long as there remains a little moisture in the stains,

he stands easily on the pavement

and moves fluidly through the corridors. If only one

cloud can be seen, it is enough to know of others,

and life stands on the brink. It rains

or it doesn

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