Maybe There’s A Reason We Associate Wisdom With Age
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007I’m leaving the title off of this until the end–read it first.
Doctor, you say there are no haloes
around the streetlights in Paris
and what I see is an aberration
caused by old age, an affliction
I tell you it has taken me all my life
to arrive at the vision of gas lamps as angels,
to soften and blur and [...]