And Yet

Saw a picture of someone
and she said it was
the best she had ever looked

I thought about that and decided that
the best I ever looked
was when I was 22
That phase only lasted about fifteen minutes
but I will forever recall
how in the middle of the seventh minute
Trish Powell asked me to turn around
so she could see my ass in my jeans

But today I looked
in the bedroom mirror
at saggy fat ass me
with the wizened eyes and the graying hair
and the patches of sad fact everywhere

smarter than I have ever been

and saggy fat ass me said
start that motherfucking clock
back
up