Telling the Time
- Telling the Time
At 3 A.M. the old woman gets out of bed, puts on her Sunday clothes, and proceeds to walk about the house. Alarmed, we say, "Grandma, where you going? Is not day yet!" She replies, "The man coming to take the house." The house is hers; the mortgage is discharged. But she knows something we have to learn: there's always a man coming to repossess, and he picks his time.
Edward Baugh
Edward Baugh, Emeritus Professor of English at the University of the West Indies (Mona, Jamaica), is author of Derek Walcott and editor of Walcott's Selected Poems. Baugh's second book of poems, It Was the Singing, was published in 2000.
