The Romance of Middle Age BY MARY MERIAM (ORIGINAL)

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1 The Romance of Middle Age (ORIGINAL) Now that I m fifty, let me take my showers at night, no light, eyes closed And let me swim in cover-ups My skin s tattooed with hours and days and decades, head to foot, and slim is just a faded photograph It s strange how people look away who once would look and be the unseen cover of a book whose plot, though swift, just keeps on getting thicker One reaches for the pleasures of the mind knowledge One feels old urgencies unwind, although I still pluck chin hairs with a tweezer, in case I might attract another geezer I The Romance of Middle Age Now that I m fifty, let me take my showers in cover-ups My skin s tattooed with hours is just a faded photograph It s strange at night, no light, eyes closed And let me swim and days and decades, head to foot, and slim how people look away who once would look and be the unseen cover of a book whose plot, though swift, just keeps on getting thicker

2 One reaches for the pleasures of the mind knowledge One feels old urgencies unwind, although I still pluck chin hairs with a tweezer, in case I might attract another geezer II The Romance of Middle Age Now that I m fifty, let me take my showers at night, no light, eyes closed And let me swim in cover-ups My skin s tattooed with hours and days and decades, head to foot, and slim is just a faded photograph It s strange how people look away who once would look and be the unseen cover of a book though whose plot, swift, just keeps on getting thicker One reaches for the pleasures of the mind knowledge One feels old urgencies unwind, although I still pluck chin hairs with a tweezer, in case I might attract another geezer

3 III The Romance of Middle Age (4 words every other line) Now that I m fifty, let me take my showers at night, no light, eyes closed And let me swim in cover-ups My skin s tattooed with hours and days and decades, head to foot, and slim is just a faded photograph It s strange how people look away who once would look I didn t know I d undergo this change and be the unseen cover of a book whose plot, though swift, just keeps on getting thicker One reaches for the pleasures of the mind and heart to counteract the loss of quicker knowledge One feels old urgencies unwind,

4 although I still pluck chin hairs with a tweezer, in case I might attract another geezer IV The Romance of Middle Age Now that I m fifty, let me take my showers at night, no light, eyes closed And let me swim in cover-ups My skin s tattooed with hours and days and decades, head to foot, and slim is just a faded photograph It s strange how people look away who once would look I didn t know I d undergo this change and be the unseen cover of a book whose plot, though swift, just keeps on getting thicker One reaches for the pleasures of the mind and heart to counteract the loss of quicker knowledge One feels old urgencies unwind, although I still pluck chin hairs with a tweezer, in case I might attract another geezer V The Romance of Middle Age Now that I m fifty, let me take my showers at night, no light, eyes c losed And let me swim in cover-ups My skin s tattooed with hours and days and decades, head to foot, and slim is just a f aded photograph It s strange how peo ple look away who onc e would look and be the unseen cover of a book whose plot, though swift, jus t keeps on getting th icker One reaches for the p leasures of the mind knowledge One feels old urgen cies unwind, although I still pluck c in case I might a hin hairs with a tweezer, ttract another geezer

5 Visual poetry They say the Doesn t fall! FAR From the but I pre to think in meta(4)s rather than clichés But clichés are just the and mortar to our meta(4)s

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