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Sonnet: Old Age

By Johnny Guernica  Posted by John Hawkins (about the submitter)   No comments, 2 series
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Things are moving fast and I'm a little confused

By the mad rush of events swirling all around.

I tell myself I'm an olding man not quite toast,

But smell I'm almost ready, shower twice a day.

It's one thing and another, no hope, not a ray

Of ethos; I miss teleology the most.

Scattered brain thoughts and demented yodels abound.

I'm one step beyond the darkness of men, I mused.

The monster balls feature fools and freak show sweeties,

The one-man waltzes turn into tarantellas;

Headlines scream: They're waterboarding Archimedes;

AI hallucinations become bestsellers.

So what am I supposed to do in my old age,

Become a happy panpsychist and bubble sage?


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John Kendall Hawkins is an American ex-pat freelance journalist and poet currently residing in Oceania.

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