“Everyone is a poet at 16, but how many are poets at 50?”
—Lawrence Ferlinghetti in an interview with Christopher Bollen.
To which can only answer … well, um … HELLO!
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hells-bells <br />I'aim still 16 years <br />old & writing <br />the same stupid love <br />poems to what's-<br />her-name just so's I<br />could get her<br /><br /><br /><br />though now I frequently change<br />her name so she don't get hot-and-bothered<br /><br />she still calls me<br />every year on my <br />birthday to remind me not to send her<br />any more of my
Stop kidding around, Joseph!
Oh, I know what he meant. I was just being childish….
I think I see his point…How many in their 50s still see the world through fresh 16-yr old eyes?