Refusing at Fifty-Two to Write Sonnets

Scorn not the sonnet

Refusing at Fifty-Two to Write Sonnets       by Thomas Lynch       It came to him that he could nearly count   How many Octobers he had left to him   In increments of ten or, say, eleven   Thus: sixty-three, seventy-four, eighty-five.   He couldn’t see himself at ninety-six—   Humanity’s […]

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