GETTING OLDER

Getting old is something
That you get used to

I don't even feel these
Reading glasses on as I

Write this and think that
I may be able to handle

This aging thing better
Than expected when

I first started to realize
My sight was going

I thought my eyes
Were blurry from

Allergies and yet
Maybe it's true;

Maybe I'm allergic
to youth

DULL DREAMS

I had a dream last night that, now that I'm past it and it's nighttime I probably won't remember, but I didn't like the dream, it had my parents in it and my father was very negative and my mother was backing him up... That's supposed to happen but not against me... I had said something that I thought was deep and he mentioned to her that it wasn't deep at all... A father can do that, pull you right out of depth and let you know it's nothing but shallow contemplation, and yet contemplating is, in itself, depth but damn I wish I could remember the dream... It was very negative and that's been happening a lot lately... Bad dull dreams are worse, sometimes, than nightmares...

This was a double-feature dream and the next one had to do with my friend who is, or was, an actress back in the day and she was showing me around somewhere, like some kind of pond and it was the end of the world, or past the end, sort of a diminished beginning and she knew the ins-and-outs of this pond and that's all I remember, I should have written it down earlier... That'll teach me...