Clerk's Tale Poem Response -- Term Paper

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They must wear a false face.

The poem ends as the two men close up the shop, taking a certain amount of subtle pleasure from closing the door in the faces of the late customers. As they leave, the poem reveals that they are working the Mall of America, a particularly "garish" place. Only Reece knows that the leather bag the security guards examines before they can leave was bought while his colleague was traveling with his lover in Europe.
Then, the two of them part, and are alone in the busy, sprawling metropolis. "This is how our day ends. / This is how our day always ends," Reece writes. The poem ends on a note of profound sadness, as apparently the man no longer has a companion, and Reece himself is alone, lost in America, lost in a place where he finds very few touchstones for his alternative sexual identity, other than this older man.

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