Inescapably, Inevitably Growing Old
Nine poems about aging and finding your life has gone by faster than you were anticipating.
Play It Again, Tony
the eighty year old dj plays the same two songs over and over
one side playing then the other
then forgetting
did he change the first already?
he couldn’t remember.
maybe.
he would have changed it.
yes probably.
and he plays it again.
Soiled And Sour
I like biographical documentaries
cause even the greatest of men the most famous and iconic
get old and their bodies break down
and they get grumpy and generationally conservative
and they have to pee too much and it starts to hurt
and they lose their wit and charm and mental faculties
or turn wholly deranged and no matter what die
so maybe the occasional cigar is worth
whatever its future deficit rings up on the annuity register