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This World

A lurching man
held a flip phone in front of his face,
exhorting it in front of Wal-Mart.
In his other hand dangled a water bottle
stuffed with long-stemmed red roses.
A white-haired gentleman
wearing a navy baseball cap
bent stiffly to pick up trash
near a busy intersection.
He placed it into a flimsy grocery bag,
saluting me, eyes proud, as we passed.
A mother gestured to her baby,
showed him a turtle lumbering
up the grass next to a chain-linked fence
and both of them laughed delight.
So many people. So many stories.
So many treasures to find in this world.