The way to write when you start being older
Is as if you didn’t feel you had to justify not having lived
that life
but this;
and pen those phrases without apology
as if you had a story that was already told
and this
an addendum
just don’t let it be a postscript
don’t permit it
as a preview
a precusor
and certainly not posthumous
unless you want to go right back to the beginning