Painting by Chris Chalk
Being Eighty
No big deal, anyone can do it,
just count by tens: ten, twenty,
thirty, forty, fifty, sixty,
seventy--and you're there,
perched on the little island
with the cake on it,
ready to sing all those years again
and untie the ribbons.
William Stafford
Posted over on Friends of William Stafford
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