I looked for someone today…

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I looked for someone today

I looked for someone today--

someone like me.

Sitting by the pool,

shaded by the palm trees

and surrounded by sea

I was on the lookout for me’s.

I saw some me’s:

much younger me’s

chatting desultorily

with boyfriends and girlfriends

in the water.

I saw some other

younger me’s--

playing with their daughters

in the pool.

Out on the beach I saw

empty nester me’s—

walking hand in hand

on the sand.

I even saw

some older me’s—

the men smoothing sun screen

on the me’s backs

But I saw no alone me’s.

I was the only alone me--

that I could see by the sea,

that I could see by the sea.

(Addendum:  Sunday, 10/10/10 Two me girlfriends

sit before me.  Sunglasses and manicured nails and

lightly dyed hair. I think they are Canadians.)