A Life Story

by Albert Russo

when you’re in a daze

not sure whether you’re awake

or still dreaming

you will yourself

from the farthest memories

to unfurl your life

then, overwhelmed

you catch yourself embracing

every single detail

your first steps as a child

yesterday’s road accident

your grandfather’s smile

it’s all helter-skelter

yet, so truelike, so vivid

so physical

you ask yourself

is this some kind of ESP

a trick from above?

the scroll of your own history

as if Jack Kerouac

were writing about you

nothing escapes your mind

the pain, the happy moments

your folks on a dance floor

remember that song?

swimming in Lake Tanganyika

the wailing refugees

spring in New York

chopped chicken liver on rye

you’re still a freshman

look at your hands

yes, the years have passed

but your heart hasn’t aged

indeed, you insist

as if to defy time

I am all those things

the past

the present

and the future

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Copyright ©:

Albert Russo

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External links

Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus

Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh

Consider This And In Our Time by W H Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
The Common Life by W H Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
Cocaine Lil and Morphine Sue by W H Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
Christmas Oratio by W H Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
Carry Her Over the Water by W H Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
Canzone by W H Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
Calypso by W H Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
Base Words Are Uttered by W H Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
Autumn Song by W H Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
August 1968 by W H Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
Atlantis by W H Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
As I Walked Out One Evening by W. H. Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
As We Like It by W H Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
As the poets have mournfully sung by W H Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
Are You There? by W H Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
After Reading a Child’s Guide to Modern Physics by W. H. Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
Academic Graffiti by W H Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
A Walk After Dark by W H Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
A New Year Greeting by W H Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
Continual Conversation With A Silent Man by Wallace Stevens by Wallace Stevens

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