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letra de closer to home - micah bournes

when i get old
i will not consider it a compliment
when told i look younger than i am
neither will i appreciate people half
my age calling me young man
“that’s mister, or sir to you young
lady.”
when i get old, i will not care if
teenagers think i’m cool
i will not try to use youthful slang
and accidentally say something inappropriate
when i get old i will say inappropriate
things on purpose
things i’ve thought for decades but
knew only an old man could get away with
when i get old, i will not reminisce on
the good old days as if i grew up in the golden age of morality
as if marvin g-ye sung about s-xual
purity
as if woodstock was a billy graham
crusade
no. when i get old, i will remember the
perversity of today and i will not make young people feel like sinners merely
because they were born too late
when i get old, i will celebrate
progress and see technology as my friend
when i get old, i’ll amaze the children
with stories about airplanes flying into skyscr-pers. and how i was in
washington at the inauguration of america’s first black president. and how my
uncle was supposed to be his running mate but died when he crashed his truck

when i get old, i will make stuff up

when i get old, my vision may blur and
my memory might fade but i will never forget to sing hallelujah every single
day
when i get old i will be closer to god
not death
closer to life, not death
closer to home, not death

when i get old
i will never wish to trade positions
with a younger man
i will look back on the current me and
be glad that i am no longer him
when i get old
i will read this poem and see how
arrogant i am for supposing i know what i’ll be like when i get old
when i get old i’ll write a poem about
how i thought i was a good poet when i was young, but now i actually am
when i get old i will be the man
possessing the mojo of every age
i will be

dapper
spiffy
smooth
groovy
supa fly
too legit
fresh to death
swagalicious
and whatever else the young folks come
up with to describe people like me

when i get old, i will not care if
teenagers think i’m cool

’cause i will be cool, no matter what
they say

and my grandchildren will shake their heads in shame

- micah bournes

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