by David W. Rushing
Is this what turning fifty brings—
rage, madness, and the realization
that much of one’s life has been squandered
in the half-fog of barely discernible reality,
and that with the arrival of yet more terrible layers of emotional hell
and physical pain comes the understanding that the once dreaded fear
of dying “too soon” has been replaced with a desire for death
before insanity reigns supreme?
David W. Rushing's articles and poems have appeared in over 100 magazines. His two chapbooks are Unrequited Love, Unfinished Lives. He is is now completing a non-fiction prose book on art.
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