Written Around Age 30

(Written around age 30...that young poet has been gone forover 40 years. ) I will share, share fully in man's common oblivion and seek peace in my heart o'er peace on earth. I will carefully and very deliberately taste all the food I eat, bathe often, and whistle off-key as I please. I will value every moment of friendship like sparkling diamonds on a necklace, and I'll let my friend's pain beat on me like my own. I will try to love women better, much better-- feel their pain more but fear them less as their thighs and breasts and bottoms run wildly through my mind like unruly children in an orphanage of desire. And I will breathe better, filling my lungs to near burst with the spirit of life... and finally, I will try learn to have more patience with incorrigible death. that unseen god whose kiss touches all.