Tag Archives: age

Fraiku: Too Soon Too Soon

Posted on 2025-10-10 by Bartholomew Barker

As a boy I ran Impatient to begin life Now I shuffle slow Title stolen from Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s A Coney Island of the Mind, 20.

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With Each Passing Year

Posted on 2022-09-27 by Bartholomew Barker

With Each Passing Year Food loses its flavor.The sun gets dimmer,the atmosphere thinner.I can’t catch my breath. The Earth’s molten coreis spinning slower like a topwobbling— I feel gravity tiltbeneath my feet as I walk. Years fly by fasterthan months … Continue reading →

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