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This one is called
"The Missing Person."

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He has come to report
himself of missing person.

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The authorities
hand in the forms.

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He knows how they have waited
with the learned patience

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of barbers in small shops,
idle, stropping their razors.

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But now that these
spaces in his life

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stare up at him blankly
waiting to be filled in,

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he does not know how to begin.

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Afraid that he may
not answer even

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to his description of
himself, he asks for a mirror.

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They reassure him that
he can be nowhere,

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but wherever he finds himself
from moment to moment,

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which for the moment
is here, and he

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might like to believe them.

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But in the mirror, he
sees what is missing.

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It is himself he sees
there emerging slowly as

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from the dark of a
furnished room only by dark.

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One who receives no mail
and is known to the landlady

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only for keeping
himself to himself,

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and for whom it
will be years yet

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before he can trust to the light
this last disguise himself.

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