Tuesday, February 21, 2023

To be known

When I’m 80 I hope to take out the trash 

Like any other year - a slow movement 
Of ridding my life of unwanted used up 
Mistreated atoms - aren’t we all just atoms 
Bunched up in different configurations 

In life: yes when I’m 80 to do such a feat 
Alone my little tangerine hands grasping 
The last of life and tossing it away as if 
I had all the time: the world - what a day