D.E.

February 28, 2014

D.E.

“...This research was carried out on D.E. who was born in 1954. In 1970 he was involved in a motor-scooter accident. A bilateral carotid angiogram...revealed almost total occlusion of the left internal carotid artery... His speech output consists primarily of 3-4 words arranged in simple syntactic structures... He is currently employed as a store keeper...”

His name might be David, or Donald,

or Daniel. He might have blond hair

or brown, blue eyes or green. He is currently

employed as a store keeper.

At sixteen I still held my first kiss as precious,

I daydreamed about what I might want to study in college,

and I began to learn how to put words together in just the right way

in an attempt to form something beautiful.

He speaks softly, maybe with a self-conscious smile.

He is currently employed as a store keeper.