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# In a Parking Garage
- URL: https://randalljgreene.com/in-a-parking-garage/
- Published: 2025-11-01T19:40:05.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-01T19:40:05.000Z
- Description: A poem about death and loneliness and community.
- Author: Randall Greene
- Tags: Poetry

A man died yesterday alone  
in a stairwell in a parking garage,  
lines of cars of people, alone;  
I did not know him,  
or if I did I did not know it,  
but I know I've been only  
the blade-edge of a scalpel away  
from him.

None of us are so different after all,  
separated by happenchance more  
than anything than living, alone;  
yet we do not know each other,  
or if we do we do not know it,  
hidden behind masks of shallow agreement  
or avatars of outraged disagreement  
that's not real.