Monday, February 21, 2022

REMISS

Though it's so often viewed 
as pained 
or intractable, 

old age 
is actually swift-
ly accommodating: 

the way 
all the rudeness, 
the impulsivity,

and of course, 
the bitter, 
bilious gall

which leached 
into our youth 
and infected all its vigor, 

whenever they're recalled,
are ardently 
rejected 

as irrelevant, 
unfit, or just plain 
inadmissible.