I'm Almost

I'm almost 9

I'm almost 16

I'm almost 30

I'm almost 46

I'm almost 9

for a summer in Queens

and the days are sunshine and

beaches and city streets

and baseball games

and dirt that never touches me

I'm almost 16

at my first Broadway show

with my high school chorus

and I don't understand

all the things I see on stage

but I know I want to

I'm almost 30

and this company has agreed

to pay me for the only thing

in the world that

I'm good at

and here I am again

I'm almost 46

and my company has agreed

to bore me to death

so I will I write poetry

sitting in a bar

with red duct tape seats

and wonder

if I'm almost

where I should be

if I'm almost home

and if I'm almost

happy

~VoodooRue (5/2017)