I’ve been thinking about this, too. What will happen when I’m too old to write? I mentioned it to my son and he said dictation software is pretty good. And then he said it would kind of suck because it would just make my poetry sound angrier. Indeed, what will we do when we’re too old to write?
I come away feeling excited at this prospect, because it seems to me that the speaker is writing themselves onto the margins of their own work. There is a bit of a time crunch, we can’t take forever to write what we need to now. “I will not be able / to think of the words, / just feel and see / the intricate grace / of what remains.” Maybe I’m over-interpreting, the later stanzas do come off more “dour”. The per-word line breaks in the last stanza make me feel like we’re sliding into the margins, that’s fun
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