Older, Aging & Old

By Zolen Caló

I wont claim, like many do, that this thing called aging sneaked up on me. After all, I have been growing older for quite some time. On the other hand, it wasnt until I came to realize that the whole process would end up at old that I started to pay attention. With no defense against the inevitability of headlong growth . . . more frankly known as shrinkage . . . and being locked in with it alone for twenty-four hours every day, I decided to make a game of it. For those of you who do not just smirk at the back covers of chapbooks but actually read the poetry insideyou, the twerps, nerds, dweebs, wimps, duffers, dolts, rubes, yokels, geeks, goody two-shoes, molly-coddled milquetoasts, and jellyfish literary intellects of the worldI would call my activity a study . . . a research project, if you will . . . of a qualitative kind. The design was carefully constructed and carried out by someone other than myself, but I did manage to track the results. The more cogent outcomes I compressed into the rough lines of poetry that you will find published within this otherwise fine chapbook. I hope you will open the cover and read a few. And for the many readers of Earth Dirt & Dustmy six-chapbook anthology of poetrywho demanded a full treatment of poetic thought dedicated to the actualities of aging, I hope you enjoy.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jun 23, 2009
• ISBN: 9781467844819

Zolen Caló

Zolen Cal awoke into a dilemma caused by Southern European genetics faced off against North American opportunity. In his efforts to merge the two extremes, he came to find his greatest nourishment in books. After he worked his way through U.S. universities, studying psychology and the liberal arts, he took up his travels, which included a decade in the outback of Central America. During this period he took up various "hazardous adventures of a domestic sort" and developed a tragic sense of his inefficiencies in all things political. He has consolidated his findings thus far into seven novels and this, his seventh chapbooks of poem. He currently lives alongside a creek deep in the heart of Brer Rabbit country.

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© 2009 Zolen Caló. All rights reserved.

No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

First published by AuthorHouse 6/15/2009

ISBN: 978-1-4389-8576-3 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4678-4481-9 (e)

Printed in the United States of America

Bloomington, Indiana

Cover Photograph Entitled Via Libre

By Jaime Lluch

Tomares, Sevilla, Spain

Dedication

to Harli Johnson Palme, my hope

Novels By Zolen Caló

Fingers Through The Sand

The Quixote Imbroglio

Nearly Diamond

Just Another Georgia Romance

Memory Work

Ali Zán And True Love

Chapbooks By Zolen Caló

Earth, Dirt And Dust: The Anthology

Senseless Questions. Exacerbation By

Simply Being Here. Plain Dumb

Separations & Alienations. The Usual Run Of

Spouses. And Lovers Briefly Imagined As

Stupored Revelations. And Insights Therefrom

Aging. And Memories Resultant Of

A Tenuous Brush With. Enlightenment

Contents

From The Older Spiders

Of Lick Creek

He Did Not Look At Me

Old Love

Worn Shoe

Her All Around Me

Prufrock, More Aged

Woman, Cheated

It’s So Damned Scary

Since the Mansion We Built

The Apparent Ultimate

The Favor Of Age

The Years After Osierfield

On Being Older

An Older Dreamer Reflects

The Dancers

My Dream, Become

The Mongolia Trip

Houses

Gnostic Entrapped

My Passage Of Her Time

Why I Pray

Should I Kill Her Now?

Cerebration At The River Styx

Did Not Remember

Nicole’s Song

A Moment In Time

You Are Old!

His Tombstone

Swift Cat*

To Be Near

Octogenarian Depressed

Her House

Dropping Things

Summer 1952

1022 Augusta Avenue

Lost Of Way

The Null Hypothesis Contested

The Chair

A Midlife Drama

This Later Age

That Partial Ponder

This Rhyme

To Her, Away Now

From The Dock

On Lick Creek

Introduction

The first time I passed the introduction to this chapbook around to the various