July 09, 2007

On turning 29

It's funny to have been around this long and still be ridiculously young.

Edging toward three decades of memories and reshuffled details, still counting on friends I made 20 years ago (or at least 20 days). You'd think we'd all be seasoned and wise now.

It doesn't seem to work that way, but I do know their insights keep gaining value, like triple-cream illegal French cheese.

Thank goodness other people can write poems.

When I snap my fingers
You will wake in a dear yet unfamiliar place
You will scarcely remember your travail
You will be eating green caterpillars over a small fire
An awesome congeries of youthful men and women
Will be brushing these very tracks away

—C.D. Wright—

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