Wednesday, May 19, 2010

This is About Getting Old

What you finally know
you can't just lay out in prose.
It must be hidden.

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  2. Talk to me about this V- I'm curious.

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  3. Kids and other callow ones can't hear us speak from experience unless maybe we sneak up on them with words that bypass their resistance? Maybe with songs and poems? Something like that. Their pulchritudinous uncaloused selves can't bear wrinkles because experience prefigures death?

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  4. that's a great clarification V. I really misunderstood.

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