i know you, don't i

i run

into the old English teacher

from back

in high school,

he's a clerk

now

at the grocery store, but

he's still

quoting

Shakespeare.

saying things like to be

or not to

be,

things like that.

who goes there, he

says to me

with his steely blue eyes.

i know you,

don't i?

are you still the devil

incarnate?