Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “I Am A Traveller!” by Hayden Finkelshtain.

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I Am A Traveller!

By Hayden Finkelshtain

I declare into the sink

as I fumble my thoughts near the bin

in which we keep the old baseball caps

I Am The Time-Lord!

Is the subject of the memo forwarded

while the cats hunt butterflies at the screen door

(a war not a battle)

This Is Meaningful!

I proclaim, thick and bassy, as the

condo corp emails a notice about fire alarm testing

and how they will enter our unit if we aren’t home

We do not grieve this Perpetual End:

We Travel Time. It Is Significant.

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Copyright © Hayden Finkelshtain

Hayden Finkelshtain is a Toronto-based actor and writer.

He has been published in several places, teaches public speaking, and has two ridiculous cats.

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