
Afternoon Snack at the Beach

Searching for Meaning and Surviving His Fifties
aging mind and body
make necessary for me
the once abhorred
with ones and zeros
and a few words of English
art graces my page
in late afternoon
last gasps of the setting sun
sharpen the city
maybe it’s next year
that I will feel fully-grown
lament at fifty
gray midwestern sky
drops rain on yellowing leaves
October arrives