Last year, Taylor Swift was SOMEONE
and I was seventy-three.
That Taylor Swift last year was SOMEONE
what could THAT mean to me?
Taylor Swift is still SOMEONE.
I am now seventy-four.
That Taylor Swift is still SOMEONE,
should I care more — or less? — than before?
If I offend, please forgive me.
I mean no disrespect for Ms. Swift.
It's just I'm tired of hearing about
people I don't identify with.
Give me tales about Eastwood,
Burnett, Poitier and Gabor.
Living or dead (and older than me),
that's who I need the news for.
Names remembered from childhood
(Is Taylor kin to Tom Swift?)
to ease me into senility
as I go slowly adrift.
