Elegy

date of conception:? ~ Late March – mid April 1958.
date of parturition: January xiii, mcmlix....

Must I be a bona fide human
It appears AI can do a bang up job

Why I can forsee college...

The special parcel
courtesy Amazon courier
hurriedly delivered softbound book before
...

As a lad in grade school,
yours truly, (a diminutive, intuitive,
oversensitive, and...

of hodgepodge strewn helter skelter
wonky inviting reader to mentally swelter.

Ach'n (ache...

first day of January
two thousand and twenty three.

While the wife then in the process...

and heat flowing with a snap

After shaving and showering,
yours truly feels winsome
...

Yours truly riddled with social anxiety,
hence (billy me) he will idle away
December 31st,...

since revised when das scribe
made laughing stock of himself
(circa ~ 8:30 post meridiem...

malfunctioning heater
on that brisk winter day
recorded here as proof positive
...

How arbitrary the assignment
of seconds, minutes, hours,
days, months, years...
to the...

No aversion nor embarrassment
admitting, divulging, and jumpstarting
poetic endeavor...

The celebrated sailing frog
from Montgomery County
went a courtin, or so the tale iz toad...

Mine body electric analogous
to Google map pronounced
with arteries and countless varicose...

Weakest most lame specimen
among human breed
control of my life I willingly concede
...

Fatherhood (half my life time ago)
bolstered reasonable rhyme
manifesting itself before...

When you write a poem off the top of your head
tony Taylor will tell you
the blank portrait...