An older man must not
give a younger man advice,
nor write a poem
that one night
under a lamp
in a dim room
cannot be read
without thick glasses,
nor the truth of it
envisioned in the bright colors
of a painting on a distant wall
An older man must not
give a younger man advice,
nor write a poem
that one night
under a lamp
in a dim room
cannot be read
without thick glasses,
nor the truth of it
envisioned in the bright colors
of a painting on a distant wall