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Elder Expectations: My Life in Rictameters
By Marlys Marshall Styne
This is a small collection of poems revealing a lot about elder life and aging.
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T.S. Eliot's J. Alfred Prufrock measured his life with coffee spoons. I've measured mine, or at least a small part of it, with rictameters. Intrigued by this deceptively simple poetic form (nine unrhymed lines in a regular syllable pattern of two, four, six, eight, ten, eight, six, four, two, with identical first and last lines), I set out to brighten the dreary days of March, 2008, in Chicago by writing one rictameter a day for my blog, "Write Your Life!" This book contains those thirty-one poems plus others. It's amazing how much these little poems reveal about an elder's life and thoughts about Aging, Writing and Reading, Months and Weeks, Weather and the Seasons, Duties and Routines, Activities and Pastimes, and Observations and Reflections.
