My Future Self Stares in the Mirror At Age 37, Unmarried and Childless

by Brian Hatleberg

Well, he/I said, sighing back
from the far felt-but-unknown Future,
there could have been one once.
But she was into other things besides me.

That is how it is;
there are great surges,
wild blues that crackle
in the mother-hump of the earth.
And those of us privileged to suck them,
well, we live lives that are of our own creation.

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