02 2017 poetry marathon<\/p>\n
prompt: yearnings<\/p>\n
Another Day, Another Night
\nby Paul Sanford<\/p>\n
I meet a lot of total strangers at the comedy open mics.
\nMost of them are fifty years younger than I am.<\/p>\n
Last night I dragged my aged bones out across the toll bridge
\nthe billion dollar monument to the ego of the architect
\nwith its hundreds of custom made five sided light poles<\/p>\n
The other performers were unfamiliar to me,
\nan unsorted gaggle of beginners, both serious and crazed.<\/p>\n
One petite older woman – my age – spoke in poetic images
\nin an amusing way.
\nI couldn\u2019t help noticing that she was attractive and eccentric.
\nJust my type.<\/p>\n
I formulated a vague plan of meeting her,
\neven though she seemed guarded and lonely,
\nso I contrived to take the empty seat next to hers
\nwhile she was up and about.<\/p>\n
A younger woman would have given me a smile and welcomed me,
\nthe harmless grandfatherly figure,
\nbut this pixie stared straight ahead,
\ncareful to give no clue that she noticed me.<\/p>\n
It was as awkward as riding on the school bus to Jr. Hi.<\/p>\n
I am always surprised to find I still have yearnings to find a mate,
\neven though my indolent life and low energy elderly body do not attract flocks of admirers.<\/p>\n
I long for the past decades in which I was ambitious,
\nimpatient, snorting at the gate with a yearning to do all sorts of things.<\/p>\n
Now my medication has all that craziness put away in moth balls,
\nand I sleep a lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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