Under the Porch Light

[Caleb Murdock]

Have you seen some of the comments in other posts? No such thing as "snarky" around here. Swing away. Frank Sinatra version is good, but Durante version is better.

"People get less romantic as they age" It's more work these days, I'll grant you, but the rewards are better than they used to be. Not exactly sure how young you mean by "young"....but young folks I know take certain things for granted. When you start taking your partner for granted, you're toast. Look at the divorce rate...lots of toast our there. I'm liking your poem more and more.

The one thing I've learned as I grow older is that everyone's experience is different. Some people seem to love the physical world, and some don't. My 84-year-old friend had a very rewarding life, whereas I barely survived from one moment to the next. I'm very religious, and I believe in reincarnation and also in multiple universes. For my next life I want to go to a universe where you get better as you age -- not just intellectually (which I have), but physically.

I used to post on Eratosphere, and people would swing away there, and the brawls were unbelievable. I left there ten years ago when one of the moderators actually mocked me for writing an amateurish poem. I'm trying to be a little more civilized here. On the last forum I posted on, there were a lot poems posted by "19-year-old wrist-slashers" (that's what one of the moderators called them in a private note), and I didn't want to be the one who finally drove them to suicide.

It's nice to hear that you are liking the poem more. Right now I'm packing orders after a sale. When I have more time, I'll look for some of your poems (and Christopher's too).