Sixty- actually Nineteen
On the bus
I found my adulthood.
I found my age had caught up with me.
I looked on
at a child barely seven,
holding a cellular phone.
He passed through the menus,
played the games like a star,
and I found a strange electrical talent in him.
And in me I found fear,
I found an odd panic that rose through me,
that gripped me for an instant
knowing that he would succeed me.
And there I found my adulthood:
trying to hold onto whatever niche I have found here,
fearing that in the future it will not be enough.
-Matthew Koutzun
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