Tuesday, January 3, 2012

New Year’s Day 2012

The young, excited by the
turning of the years,
greet them like children
tearing open Christmas toys.
The joys of the dancing doll
grow stale;
faces pale before
the bathroom mirror
in the headache dawn,
while the automaton
gyrates to a tinny tune,
and yet a ray of sun
on carpet, moving
slowly with the day
entices the old to stay.

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