In a Few Days I Won't Remember Your Face

today i found out that my physics
teacher had died
just like that
i only saw him last friday
i only talked to him last friday

he looked well

here and now gone
abruptly

extinguished almost

like a flame and you
wet your fingers to pinch it
out

it goes with a
hiss

reluctantly

i never liked my physics teacher
i’d had four lessons with him
already i could tell you that

here and now gone

i wonder who he left behind

[24/09/13]