<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font><font>The Man Who Attracts Bullets</font></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span><font></font></span> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span><font>I’m being shot at in the street.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span><font>So far, I have escaped being hit,</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span><font>feeling the bullets zip by.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span><font>I keep walking straight ahead,</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span><font>making sure not to veer from course</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span><font>nor duck nor swerve, in case this shooting</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span><font>is intended simply to scare.</font></span></p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span><font></font></span> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span><font>How about this, even seated</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span><font>in my favorite chair at home</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span><font>under a lamp with a paper, I feel</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span><font>the bullets flying by?<span> </span>I sit very still</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span><font>and imagine what is meant</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span><font>is a warning to go right on</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span><font>as I have been going, in a perfectly normal,</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span><font>calm way.</font></span></p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span><font></font></span> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span><font>I have been nicked from time to time</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span><font>when I have made a wrong move, awkwardly</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span><font>shifting my feet to cross a mud puddle</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span><font>or straightening my clothes in the wind.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span><font>I’d feel a sting in the arm or ear</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span><font>and I’d know.<span> </span>When I go to bed</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span><font>I make sure my head is lying</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span><font>in the right position for sleep.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span><font>I have been shot at in my sleep too,</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span><font>tossing in a dream. In the morning</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span><font>I sit up with a splitting headache</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span><font>or an aching back.</font></span></p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span><font></font></span> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span><font>The moral, it seems, is to do what you must</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span><font>and you will be buried at a ripe age,</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span><font>blessing your wounds.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span><span><font> </font></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font><font><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- David Ignatow</font><font> </font></font></p></body></html>