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How I fell in love with L E Sissman | Tony Peyser

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When I read Men Past 40, I remember thinking, ‘If this is what poetry is, I’m in.’

MEN PAST 40
GET UP NIGHTS
And look out
At city lights,
Wondering where they
Made the wrong
Turn, and why life
Is so long.

I had this poem – eight lines, 25 words – thumb-tacked to my dorm room wall when I entered UC Berkeley. It’s a tad on the depressing side but I was kind of a forlorn freshman. Nonetheless, this reveals how poems are capable of expressing not just profound thoughts and deep emotions but entire worlds with remarkable brevity. I remember thinking, “If this is what poetry is, I’m in.”

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