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My Age While I Read Rimbaud
I notice I am seventy-five
Today this evening I am reminded of this
Even while thinking I am twenty
Twenty and in love verging on passion
Why now do I remember
Why now remember which
Who I am now
Who I was then
I am twenty
And I remember
When I was seventy-five
6/16/08
Copyright 2008 by Maurice Leiter
Posted with permission.
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