SELF PORTRAIT AT 54

after Ted Kooser Self Portrait at 39

Fifty four years ago in 1954
I was born
about ten years after
D-Day in Normandy.

Now look at me
What have I done
done to the promise of youth
who heard what was promised
any more than what was wished

- By Anthony Buccino
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