The Grey Man

by G. Jack Urso

i live in a grey house

in a grey city

with grey people

who really aren't there

i go to a grey church

with a grey faith

and a grey god

to match my socks

everyday i go to the grey tower

and i work with grey people

i look outside translucent windows

and i see grey skies

i go home to my grey wife

and my grey kids

they sleep grey sleep

and we make grey love

late in the grey night i always wake

and i rub the grey slumber from my eyes

my grey eyes which chance to see

colors dance on my black heart



"The Grey Man." Inmate art by Michael Nieves, 1994.

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