Identify This Man by Jerry Durick
Identify This Man I’ve seen him some place before, the guy the TV news showed wheel a thousand inch flat screen out of Walmart without paying, I’ve seen him somewhere; I’ve seen so many faces and places, crowds full, lobbies and terminals, waiting in line for this or that, ball games and fair grounds, town squares, main streets, side streets, out a window, they all walk by eventually; new faces join the old more familiar faces, people I went to school with, people I passed on the highway home; I have grouped them, typed them, added new features to the old ones; I’ve seen him some place before like a face recognition program, I scan and lock in on him, seen him before wheeling a smaller set out of the same Walmart five years ago, one wheel on the cart wobbled just so and he threw down the cigarette he was smoking when he saw me scan him in, he knew I’d know him next time, this time, I know him, the type, his features, he blends with the others, becomes a...