The Gold Watch

Lost my passport.

We have a safe

in the closest

which i have not

looked into for five years.

For two days i searched for

the combination which i had hidden

then I could open the safe to

find my passport so;

i could go to montreal.

found no passport but the

safe was filled with such

unvaluable crap even the

biggest bum of a thief would have no

use for to hock or pawn except...

a gold watch i forgot i even owned.

i bought it when i was 32 in 1989

it is an Ebel brand model 1911 with a black

face solid 18 carat gold. it felt

very heavy in my hand as i tried to

conjer up the mind i posesed back then

which told be that spending 11,400

for a watch was a good idea.

I could not, so i settled for the

notion that i had lost my mind.

I think I wore it twice in 19 years time.

it needed a battery.

then i began to remember

sitting cross-legged in that closet

with that stupid little safe;

the salesman at the time saying that

this watch was a good investment

and two years after i bought trying

to sell it back to him and him

offering me 900.00 or like

a friend saying he would featuer it in

the jewlery store front window

"used section" to get me a better price.

then i knew that he had screwed me

two years ago.

so i took my watch home

put it in the safe and there it sat for

17 more years.

i eat pizza and chinese food out of

white paper boxes and when i was

in montreal i walked 12,000 steps acoording to my

cousin michael pedometer, about 6 miles

at night wandering in and out of

french speaking neighboorhoods

talking about this and that and the other thing

and this was like gold.

so i never had a use for this and that

old young mind is lost but i do know

that the price of gold is at an all time

high about 800.00 per ounce so i took

it to work and weight it on the

postage scale and it weighed five

ounces with the guts in it so

i figured 4 ounces of pure gold

or 3200.00.

that jewlwery salesman was such an asshole.