No One Else But Me Poem by Mason Maestro

In shopmarts and gourmet coffee stars
In Lincoln limousines, with those who have the means
And hunchbacks in fields
And travelers in hostel dorms, on concrete dikes
In courthouses and subway stations
In registrars and taverns
In the pages of lost history
I recognize
An epiphany, in every one but me

And in care centers, by notary publics
Where you screwed your internship minus the suffix
Past municipal boundaries and county lines
Past vineyards and their vintage wines
On towering billboards and city morgues
On award podiums, on survival rafts on the high seas
In refugee camps, under writers' oil lamps
On Pink Floyd's guitar amps
On the faces of Stanley Cup champs

On the fist of a woman executing catharsis
Who adopted a possum cub -
whose mother is somebody's coat
I recognize,
An epiphany in no one else but me