The time is past for going back.
- A. E. Stallings
You've test-driven the tops and bottoms
weighed the pros and cons
put in for a hiatus from drifting aimlessly,
a far cry from the old days
when you were a pronoun-in-training, and
domesticity was a bargain-basement forget-me-not . . .
The boatman awaits . . .
Let's talk about your future
and the hellish commute to motherhood,
fatherhood, sisterhood, brotherhood . . .
Mourning inconclusively is a no-no . . .
Learn the lines of your face . . . Learn them well . . .
As resident cartographer of your double life,
you are within X years of enlightenment . . .
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| Antonio Palmerini |