Woke up this morning
realized
I was almost 55.
When Shakespeare was this old he was dead
quite dead.
and had already willed to his wife
his secondbest bed.

I’m almost 55
and have not written
Hamlet, MacBeth,
As You Like It, A Comedy of Errors,
Or Much Ado About Nothing.

By the time George Gershwin
turned 55
he had been dead 18 years
and had already written
Porgy