BOSTON CHILD

Left off on the Boston Common, Perry had one green eye which he viewed as if he were in tunnel vision.

All alone, strangers came up to him, who was seven but imagined he was eleven.

"Free green monster seats at the Red Sox game .Be early."

" Free the Milford ten."

"I'm too busy passing out my tracts to tell you about God."

" You are on revolutionary beds. Remember Revere."

"Save the whale and the climate."

"Free flute lessons at the Conservatory."

"Visit the Constitution now docked."

"Win the lottery, be set for life."

" A poem for your thought."

"Join the chess bums at Harvard."

"Holocaust memorial nearby."

"Dog walkers are here for you."

Perry stood there as if paralyzed by all the voices. He starts to cry at all the confusion.

He sees an angel or someone dressed as one apparently quoting Rilke and takes off.