'Do you know how much you need? ' <br /> asked Keoki at the hardware store, <br />but suddenly, it was no longer about rope <br /> <br /> for hanging clothes under tropical sun <br />because his question brought back that day. <br /> <br />'Hey, ' he said, but I was off and thinking, <br /> already five times zones east <br />and thirty years from where now I stand: <br /> <br />I'm gazing at a gravestone I glimpsed once <br />walking in a Vermont cemetery with my dog- <br /> <br />a flat slab of cut gray marble set in the grass, <br /> just a name, two dates, a life <br />the length of a hyphen, and a single word: <br /> <br /> 'Enough.'<br /><br />Eric Paul Shaffer<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/exactly/
