This old man has a certain place where he can go.
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He has his room, and he has the sandwich. That is all he has and the sandwich is of greater value to him, now that he is old and almost wise.
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The rest has gone; friends and foes and wife and child and children-who-may-have been. Potential lovers. Countless sunsets.
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The cities he would have visited—Paris, Rome, Athens, Calcutta, Seoul, Belgium, Pigeon Forge, Rio. Timbuktu. He would have visited Timbuktu.
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He would have ridden roller coasters. He would have taken up painting. He knows so damn much about painting. He knows how roller coasters work, and how to fix a car, and why Napoleon failed in Russia.
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He knows how the stock market works. He knows how his circulatory system works. He has no idea how his room works.
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This old man—but unsure, impossible to know how old—waits for his lost wife, and the efficient second hand of his watch tips out the time until she will be here.
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He stands suddenly as if to leave, effecting a half-interested scurry of pigeons, then sways, casting about with his eyes as if unsure of a course.
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Of course, she won’t believe him. She won’t—how could she? Still, he hopes he can make her understand.
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If she will understand, then he may have a better place than his room to spend the final years. Perhaps then he’ll write. If she doesn’t understand . . . well. He hopes she will understand.
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This is about Paul Ryan, isn't it?
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