Know Your Ghosts

Know your ghosts:

City ghosts are grandiose, with phones, Visas, and black gel pens...

haunting the world from 100 stories up in soaring grey skyscrapers;

Country ghosts are pious, and full of "Thou shall nots," 

as well as good country Earth.

Internet ghosts are the newest life-form,

far more connected to the physical world

than popular imagination conceives.

Art Museum ghosts are erudite and flirtatious;

Graveyard ghosts are sweet and lonely;

Hospital ghosts are hopeful but indecisive.

Know your ghosts,

so as to understand what haunts us.