Even An Old Man Does Not Wish To Read

EVEN AN OLD MAN DOES NOT WISH TO READ Even an Old Man does not wish to read An Old Man’s Poetry- What is the use of bad health litanies And endless complaints of disappointments? And wonderings about Waste and Loss And about Time never to return And all one has erred in? An Old Man longs for Beginning again. An Old man wants what he cannot have And wishes to be what he cannot be- And write as if there were new worlds waiting to be found within himself And great adventures and explorations in writing and writing and writing An old man longs for freshness deep down things And dry dry dry is all Theory And Grey his life.