Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Conversation with Myself

This face in the mirror
stares at me
demanding Who are you? What will you become?
And taunting, You don't even know.
Chastened, I cringe and agree
and then
because I'm still young,
I stick out my tongue.

~Eve Merriam, "Conversation with Myself", 1964

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