Looking into the old files.
Written when I was young,
maybe forty-five or so.
Searching in vain for anything of my own
I can plagiarize, get something new started.
I even know just what I want to work on.
But too often my style,
can’t find the damn thing.
Organization is not my strong suit.
You are probably surprised.
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But I did find this nugget…
The Japanese people have a saying,
Deru kugi wa utareru.
The nail that sticks out gets hammered.
Be the hammer.
Such youthful aggression.
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These many years later,
guessing the Japanese have another saying.
Sooner or later we all get screwed.
And somewhere an old man
thinks to himself:
Be the screwdriver.
Lefty loosey, righty tightie.