Brenda Najimian Magarity: Exit Saroyan

Why Saroyan
are you not
of this earth
anymore?

Where will your
typewriter
blink out
the lights
tonight?

And when will your
ashes
shower over Bitlis
as you wished?

You have taken all
the answers with you
cunningly,
succinctly,
and left the world
to argue
as you willed it?

Yet, in the end
you asked:
Had not
this earth
the time
to make
another day
with you?


Brenda Najimian Magarity ©1984

This poem was previously published in Ararat, 1984, Armenian Town, 2001 and William Saroyan: Places In Time, 2008