i've written earlier of my experience of seeing a ghost when i was just a lad. no one is more skeptical than me about the paranormal. i recall that night as if it just happened, and the experience i had as a witness to the apparition is real, but i can admit that it might all be bullshit. that the ghost was the product of half-remembered stories realized in a dream-state.

even so, consider me an atheist believer in the strange and marvelous. i'd love the chance to spend the night in a purported haunted house. i also would like to go back to the house where i saw the ghost and ask the present owners if i could spend the night in that room. the house is not too far for my desire not to be realized. but i won't. if someone knocked on my door and asked the same thing i'd think that person a serious kook. also, the house itself is located in a pretty rough part of town and i'd imagine that the present occupants would not take to kindly to a 40-year-old man who says he saw a ghost in their house when he was a child. the poet wants to corroborate every experience to language. esp. the strange and marvelous. who knows maybe i'll get lucky and hook up with a team of ghost hunters who won't mind a writer tagging along. maybe i'll just stay on the look-out. the dead, i've heard, are everywhere.