Tithonus
Tithonus
This wine is strong,
And I am no longer young.
Pink girls with honeyed thighs
Cannot revitalize
My presbyopic eyes.
Yes, I am not wise,
But I know that beauty dies.
Listen: a coyote cries.
Falling snow tickles the trees.
Cicadas chirp in my knees.
(Published in The Hypertexts)
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When i was a kid I had a couple English teachers who were given to rants against the pathetic fallacy and anything that resembled it.
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