"Posterity"

"One tries, like a new jacket, one's absence on for size.
Always a tad snug,
One never finds, somehow, the proper fit,
a 42 Regular."

"And who will remember us when our days are short-armed?
And who will remember us
in our ill-fitting duds,
Parked, in the back seat of the car, by the black river?"

Charles Wright, the author of twenty-six books, has won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize, among others.

Eric Appleby is the co-founder and designer of "Forklift, Ohio."