Love Poem: Old Lovers
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Written by: Kurt Ravidas

Old Lovers

Wrinkly and skinny like the turtle’s necks,
got on each other in a blissful daze

like lizards, the old paramours have sex:
the man, a former fire fighter, lays

flat on his stomach, his sweetheart, an ex-
astronomer, - on him. He whispers: “Grace,

I still love you”. Grace loves him too. Alas,
she sleeps. Grace always was a sleepy lass.