Everything that is beautiful, refined, poignant
About a blameless you … I despise without merit
This mangled, aged face and useless, clumsy hands
They too, fervently despise the newness of you
Still I smile and bid you well before admirers in rising circles
It is treasonous for my mouth and mind
Nonetheless, one must be astronomically above forty-five
One must be foster diplomacy, etiquette and patriotic civility