Jon Bennett

Bicycle Dan

He goes to the movies
almost every day
and since getting sober
so do I
“A drink now
would be like putting out
a house fire
with gasoline,” he says
There is loneliness in my life
but not enough to ever ask
if Bicycle Dan wants
to meet me at the theater
nor is his loneliness so great
that he would ask me
We are not the stars
of this particular movie
only extras.