Tuesday, May 8, 2018

TO MYSELF


I've been sending notes to myself in a language
Neither of us understand. No wonder seven years
Couldn’t teach me French; many decades
Haven’t taught me what my own words mean.
Perhaps like Emerson at Longfellow's funeral
I will rise shakily at my own and say
"I shall miss my old friend! I so much wish
I could remember who he was!"

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