Alienation

the older I get
the less I engage
the world at large

too much noise
too much commotion
too much atrocity

I prefer stillness
I prefer silence
I prefer myself

if my friends were alive
we'd laugh together
at so much absurdity

but I outlived them
and must laugh alone
not the same thing

I make great effort
to distract myself
from "nightscape in empire"

with Homer and Mailer
Shastakovich and Brahms
track and baseball

anything to drown out
the constant barrage
of bad news, worse news

the older I get
the less I engage
the world at large

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"nightscape in empire" comes from a poem by Terry Simons

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