ON THE SIXTY-FOURTH DAY OF THE YEAR

I'm thinking of that late painting by Caravaggio

in which the victorious young David,

with the face of the young Caravaggio,

holds the severed head of the middle-aged Goliath,

with the face of the middle-aged Caravaggio,

and I too wish that the innocence of youth

would have triumphed over the tired years

and what they wrought.

05.03.2023

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