Comparing Notes

Youth

  paints a tear

       on bare page

  writing

       from non-experience

           is easy

 

Live

      Boy

            Cry for real

                   for loss

                   for fear

                   for death

                   for life

                   for love lost

Then come to me

       with painted words on pastoral canvases

              of neatly typed pages

And we'll

       judge the maesure of you

                fully grown