​POETRY  

"the remarkable feat
that I restarted piano lessons once again"

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This Alone Would Make One Tired
By Ann Grogan

I think I’m about to get tired and “old”
from society’s age prejudice!
I read that 76 is an “advanced” state
in AARP’s * Bulletin, no less.

I guess that’s better than a few years ago
when I just about fell over
reading a reporter’s clear implication
that I should be pushing clover.

About a crime committed, she said,
that an “elderly” person was attacked,
yet the victim was 54 years of age
and a mere youngster at that.

Perhaps I should amend my book’s back cover
to stress the remarkable feat
that I restarted piano lessons once again
as an “elderly” person—so neat!

Do I deserve a Medal of Piano Honor
for persisting in expressing myself
after re-finding music at my “advanced” stage?
Should I already be on the shelf?

* The U.S. American Association of Retired Persons

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​Ann Grogan is a joyful octogenarian, retired lawyer, emerging writer and poet who lives in San Francisco. Her writing promotes the unequivocal permission to pursue one’s passions at any age. Her poems have appeared in Little Old Lady, the University of Vermont’s Continuing Education Newsletter, and KAWL Public Media Bay Poets. Her poems are forthcoming in the fall editions of Querencia, The Prairie Review, and Amethyst Review. She’s the author of two volumes of poetry, Poetic Musings on Pianos, Music & Life and she invites readers to visit her music and poetry website, rhapsodydmb.com.

Editor's Note:   Ann Grogan is a first-time contributor to Vistas & Byways.

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