I will not learn

by Mike Bell

I will not learn anotherlanguage - nor drive atspeeds to Nürburgringin a Maserati - & I will

not make love to threeothers at once [insteadescorted nearer a 60thyear by time’s whores]

& I’ll not be aligned toright wing sympathies[as is ageing’s want] - Istand apart [from that

boorish fall] - Perhapsbaldness will not call -My chances of being agrandfather are less as

my kids’ futures crowdwith quiet fears - all wehad was Armageddon -a quick death - not this

leaden slide into a direfuture of resentment &constant adjustments -Earth was home - I will

not know how it worksout - I will cast my vote[with care] to fix what Ican see as a mendable

whilst my children sayit will not be repaired -I’ll not know how it allfalls apart - far too old

to learn anything newor useful as this worldendures every inanitywe imbibed [to profit]