There is this old blue rusting chest in my mother's garage covered with years of dust. It contains a bunch of my old stuff when I used to live here many years ago. The usual teenage items of sentimental value which I have never had the heart to throw away. Long diaries, old letters, tickets from the World Series, my third place award at the Monterey County Athletics Association, souvenirs from the Big Game, golfing paraphernalia, my Stanford graduation tassel, high school awards, ad infinitum. I have left it all here to age in silence and darkness, because I just have not found the time nor the energy to go through it all when visiting during those short and frantic sojourns. This in order to see what I want to throw away for good and what I want to save and take back with me. The time has come to do this once and for all, decide what to have destroyed forever and ever, and randomly pick out those items which will survive with me to the grave. While rummaging through my many old things, I discovered a collection of poems I had written back in the days when I thought I was a future famous philosopher poet. Just for fun, here is one of my favorites. It is untitled and goes like this:
UNTITLEDWhenever I have money
I always waste it
So today I bought a
Rocky Road.- Kiffin, (way back in) 1978
Isn't it funny how some things never seem to change? Too bad I gave up the lucrative path as a future famous philosopher poet.
This is the thing that I least look foward to. Being faced with the colateral of the past and deciding what in my past is less important to remember in the future than the next thing. I mean... I obviously don't need that stuff any more, but to look back upon those items brings a warmth to life. But maybe someday you will find an outlet for your poetry and yet again venture the road of the future famous philosopher poet.