> This poem has claws, Robin. I like it!
Thanks, Stephen. As of today, that makes it 27 down, 11 to go with Paul the
Usher.
> When I was 40 or so, I asked a Doctor at what age is it typical to have a
> "mid-life" crisis?"
> "It depends," he said. "If you work for the Post Office, it could begin
when
> you are 25!"
> Your poem made me remember that.
If you look at what I like to think of mid-life identity crisis poems, you
have Dante at 35 in the Divine Comedy ("Ne mezzo del camin di nostra vita"),
Villon at 30 in The Testament "En L'an trentisieme de mon age", and Wallace
Stevens 40 years old in "Le Monocle de Mon Oncle" ("If men at forty will be
painting lakes"). Edwin Morgan was 40 when he published +The Second Life+.
Shakespeare at Sonnets, but we can't be quite so precise about his age as in
the other cases.
Why am I not surprised that Francois Villon was the one who hit mid-life
earliest?
Robin
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