Recalled To Mind

Memorable, the least that
could be said of someone
neither a relative nor a friend,
someone unusual enough that
minuscule traces of him would
be fixed in distant memory.
And he was different, unprepossessing
yet remarkable, even in youth his
wizened body and oddly
preternatural intelligence placed him
apart from his coevals, on a lofty
plane that they could not, had no
desire to aspire to, mocking him as
weird. And he was. His name, 
unusual in itself lodged as firmly
as his acerbic wit, capable of
rising to sublime heights of 
self-deprecation, yet in so doing
identifying his genuine cerebral
brilliance. Kindly disposed to
another social outcast whose mind
fed ravenously upon his. Well
known that his shrivelled frame held 
twisted, painful viscera whose state
dictated an elevation of that
cutting wit as its whetstone. Long ago,
that was and suddenly, there: the name,
the place, the memory, the obituary.