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I’m Growing Old, Patti Smith
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I’m Growing Old, Patti Smith

To Tifani Tamayo

Eerie. Does this mean that it's that time
In life when there are more endings
Than beginnings? That the rime
Of age begins to weigh on the living?

We are so god-damned young, yes.
And the young are certainly god-damned.

Spring of 2016

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