You May Be An Old Man

There’s something vulnerable about the human condition, where people can transmute into something so astonishingly altered that whatever is left is wholly unrecognizable. – Craig D. Lounsbrough

My beatnik days. 1960ish.
You may be
an old man...

If two cashiers 
are available, 
and you choose 
the funny black 
guy
instead of 
the hot young 
blonde...

If the hair 
on your balls
is three inches 
longer
than 
your dick...

Or your nose.

Or your ears.

If you get 
confused
when asked
to perform
Hammer Time
or 
the Heimlich Maneuver...

If you can't remember 
what you ate 
for breakfast, 
but you can rattle off 
the combination 
of your post office box 
in 1966...

Or 1956.

If you wake up
happy
to be in love
with an old woman,
not
your mom...

If your eyebrows 
obscure 
your vision 
on a windy day...

You may be
an old man.


New Orleans. 1992ish. Credit: Carla Perry.

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