And I am too old to be a dirty old man
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From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Dominic Fox
Sent: 18 June 2008 20:44
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Subject: Re: Eterne in Mutabilitie
I'm too young to be a dirty old man, damn it.
Actually, I was saying somewhere else a while back that I've
definitely passed a threshold on the far side of which nubility
becomes visible as such, rather than being an indiscernible
characteristic of most female persons around one's own age. And that
more and more it is something I look forward to seeing my daughter
grow into, a blossoming of personhood, which is evident even in young
women I wouldn't have looked at twice when I was their age (not that
they, or anyone in particular, often looked twice at me). Helpless
lust is not foremost among the components of this fascination, but
there's plenty of time for it to grow its claws.
Dominic
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