IT WAS THE SUIT DID IT

without telling you my calendar age

please take my word for it
when i say
i saw myself 

there in the the mirror today
& 

for maybe the first time

saw not only

the approximation
of a full grown man

but

one

also

still

deep in the uphill drag 

on 

the 

tilt & slide of the earth

~

it was the suit did it

pinning me down

in a pigeon hole

&

pulling my frays inside