Happy bones poem8/18/2023 It’s been the year of a contentious US election season. All sorts of news publications have even asked if it was the Worst Year Ever. Life is short, though I keep this from my children. If I were a young man With my bones full of marrow, Oh, if I were a bold young man Straight as an arrow, I'd store up no virtue For Heaven's distant plain, I'd live at ease as I did please And sin once again. Read In The Episode: Tweet TweetNote: This Clip Is For Entertainment Purposes Only No Copyright Is IntendedDon't Forget To Drop A Like On. Maggie Smiths forthcoming book of poetry is called 'Weep Up.' This has been a tough year. If I were a young man With a brisk, healthy body, Oh, if I were a bold young man With love of rum toddy, Though I knew that I was spiting My old age with pain, My happy lip would touch and sip Again and again. Cheek bones shine bright in the harsh light, the hollow beneath them so shallow. Bones meant to be layered by flesh, yet I strain and angle and pose. And though from time before I knew She'd stab me with pain, Though well I knew she'd not be true, I'd love her again. My reflection casts back and I angle my head, my focus awry from glittering eyes, this is what I dread. If I were a young man And young was my Lily, A smart girl, a bold young man, Both of us silly. Featuring Good Bones, which has made a difference to so many people around the globecalled Official Poem of 2016 by Public Radio International. If I were a young man With my bones full of marrow, Oh, if I were a bold young man Straight as an arrow, And if I had the same years To live once again, I would not change their simple range Of laughter and pain. In Keep Moving, Smith writes about being a fearful child, wary of surprises: I thought of change as some interruption in my life, a veering off course. Though I am an old man With my bones very brittle, Though I am a poor old man Worth very little, Yet I suck at my long pipe At peace in the sun, I do not fret nor much regret That my work is done.
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