Lunch of chocolate cupcake Mountain Dew
To save for comic books and arcade games
Pickup basketball on the blacktop plains
Homework finished moments before due

Watching wrestling on Saturday at noon
Playing Oasis in the morning rains
To help forget about those teenage pains
Growing older could not arrive too soon

In an instant I found myself now aged
Wiser, but living as if still sixteen
Having failed at the age of twenty-six
By my former self I have been upstaged
Growing weary of the same old routine
At twenty-seven there is much to fix

- 12/15/07

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