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As the President Spoke

As the President spoke, he raised a finger

to emphasize something he said. I’ve forgotten

just what he was saying, but as he spoke

he glanced at that finger as if it were

somebody else’s, and his face went slack and gray,

and he folded his finger back into his hand

and put it down under the podium

along with whatever it meant, with whatever he’d seen

as it spun out and away from that bony axis.