by Billy Collins
illustrator Florence Manlik
Issue IV
When I spotted him on the street
walking ahead of me with that same woman,
I pretended to look into the window
of a store that happened to be empty,
but when I glanced up
and saw them waiting on a corner
for the light to change,
I realized it was only someone who looked like him—
then I wondered all the way home
where in the world he could possibly be.