"Twenty Years"

twenty years ago


and here I am

in my first

boring office job

clock-watching my way

through wasted days


hazy thoughts

caused by

"starvation" diets


still eagerly awaiting

each new Madonna release

with an intense

sense of anticipation

now alien to my thirty-something mind


and I have finally graduated

from Sweet Valley High

to Danielle Steel


and it's fair

use of a well-worn cliche

to say

that soon

I won't know

what has hit me