EDWARD FIELD

"Unwanted"

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The poster with my picture on it

is hanging on the bulletin board in the Post Office.

I stand by it hoping to be recognized

Posing first full face and then in profile

But everybody passes by and I have to admit

The photograph was taken some years ago.

I was unwanted then and I’m unwanted now

Ah guess ah’ll go up echo mountain and crah.

I wish someone would find my fingerprints somewhere

Maybe on a corpse and say, You’re it.

Description: Male, or reasonably so

White, but not lily-white and usually deep-red

Thirty-fivish, and looks it lately

Five-feet-nine and one-hundred-thirty pounds: no physique

Black hair going gray, hairline receding fast

What used to be curly, now fuzzy

Brown eyes starey under the beetling brow

Mole on chin, probably will become a wen

It is perfectly obvious that he was not popular at school

No good at baseball, and wet his bed.

His aliases tell his story: Dumbell, Good-for nothing,

Jewboy, Fieldinsky, Skinny, Fierce Face, Greaseball, Sissy.

Warning: This man is not dangerous, answers to any name

Responds to love, don’t call him or he will come.