FROM THIS ONE SIMPLE THING

UNDER TWO AND OVER 80

People laugh when they hear

me say, I followed those

under two and over 80,

but it's true. That became

my way through.

You can guess what happened.

I spend my days

reading lives of the poets.

Keats, now, he had his problems

with Wordsworth. At children's

soccer games I do what I can

to slow traffic of oncoming cars.

Jim Bodeen

28 April 2019