I hope you’re enjoying our celebration of  National Poetry Month so far.

On this third Thursday in April, Bonny, Kat, Sarah, Vera, and I will each be sharing a poem about . . . aging. I’m sharing a poem by one of my very favorite poets, Marjorie Saiser. (Her poems always make me smile.) Hope you enjoy this one, too . . .

Even If I Have No Time Left
Marjorie Saiser

Let’s say for the sake of argument
I have no time left in the spool
too much of it used
on TV shows eating crackers and cheese
that long stretch I wasted caring
what some people think
let’s say I’m down to the blue-edged paper
that marks the last of the roll
what shall I do with today
I’ll still make a pot of tea or a tequila
sunrise I’ll sit down with you to say
nothing or nothing great I might ask
What’s the weather in Omaha
and you might say Wait I’ll look it up.

Today’s poem is from Marjorie Saiser’s The Woman in the Moon, published by The Backwaters Press in 2018. Click here for more information about the poet, or to read a few more of her poems.

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I hope you’ll join us in celebrating National Poetry Month each Thursday this month. Bonny will be hosting a link-up on her blog, so please check out all the posts each week — and feel free to share some poetry and join the link up.