I’m too old for this kind of racing.
I don’t have the breadth
or stamina anymore.
I don’t even mean to try
but sometimes
I find a bus just pulling out
or a creditor closing in
and the only thing there seems
to be to do
is put the pedal to the metal
or the rubber to the road
or a third thing I’m not fast enough
to think of right now.

Occasionally, I simply have to get moving
to stretch and sweat and strive
like a younger man would
and find
that I cannot.

I hate
that when it comes down to it
I must admit
I’m not half the man I used to be
in yesteryears
and that
as I speed towards my own end
that I’m too old for this shit.