The Long Afterthought

Any decades lived past adolescence
Amount to Frost’s long afterthought, although
It’s got nothing to do with leadership,
As young Frost, valedictorian, thought.

Of course, Frost the valedictorian
Had yet to live any long afterthought,
Which doesn’t necessarily include
Regret, either. It’s just in its nature,

As long afterthought, to reconsider.
Many readers have reconsidered Frost,
The ratio of cornpone to dark rum,
How much of the rum was made molasses,

And whose actual down-home sufferings
Underwrote consumable afterthoughts.