Thought-provocative!
BORROWED
Every day I get the endless mail
the AARP postcard people
silver hair and stiffened dicks
RENEW RENEW ENJOY ENJOY JOY OF JOY
knowing that L'Etat c'est moi,
but the body is my doctor's.
Who ordered the mail to come to me
I know what the calendar says
I'm supposed to be 70
but I'm not even fifty yet so
why do they dress me in borrowed robes
why do I drop Shakespearean quotes
when I could come out from behind
the curtain drooping like my own flab
and scream like Ivan Ilyich.
Ken, Pat's natural son
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