MIDDLE-AGE CRISIS

Sign of the middle-age more than the white beard

on my chin and cheeks,

or perhaps of early

onset of dementia: I am

reading the plays of Shakespeare

and enjoying them, no

longer rebelling against each page,

rushing to write with poisonous quills

diatribes against the Bard.

(Once those words, 'the Bard', made me

see bonfires of plays and sonnets.)

I am truly lost.

05.06.2019