The Transfiguration Of Joe Schmidt

He walked out the door

to go to the store

for a pack of cigarettes

and never came back.

Where did he go? 

What happened to him?

Nobody knows, or, why he left.

One thing’s for sure:

he had a. new life

however long it lasted

however long it stayed new

whatever happened to him

he was never again 

the same old Joe.