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As It Happens

Paul Ho.

Paul Ho.

Paul Hostovsky's poems have won a Pushcart Prize, two Best of the Net Awards, the FutureCycle Poetry Book Prize, and have been featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and The Writer's Almanac. Before being published by Short Édition, "As It Happens" was accepted as part of Michigan State University Libraries call for submissions on The American Road, in coordination with the MSU Board of Art Museum's exhibit, Interstates of Mind.

When they told me I was dying, which I wasn't, I began to miss the things in the world which I didn't even like about the world—the hideous traffic on 95, for instance, which I found myself sitting in, going nowhere on my way home, in no hurry now that I was dying. I will miss this traffic, I thought, feeling surrounded—girded—by people and life and desire in the lanes. And the truck, the 18-wheeler shouldering in, trying to pass on the right (I always hated trucks), struck me now as a vessel of human kindness, people helping people they don't even know by bringing them food from far away. I w

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