The Art of the Heroic Day

Longevity is
The true adventure,
Albeit mostly
A lot of quiet
Disintegration.

Just hanging around,
Aware of hanging
Around and around
Again, is wearing
And adventurous.

Down in the village
Of the elderly,
On a summer’s day,
Longevity blinks
And gets on with it.

The old carpenter
Recounts anecdotes
To the old hippie
Whose house he’s fixing.
Old people with dogs,

Walking by the lake,
Swap news of dying
And living. One man
On a bench listens
To them kibitzing.