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Poetry: A Description of Me to You

How would you describe yourself to someone?

I used to think of myself as precocious,

a little bookish

boy with glasses

and a novel in his face.

But:

* I haven’t changed much,

so I would probably

continue the description from there.

*I’m absentminded

which makes me seem

inconsiderate

* (sometimes

my mind is wandering

in a book, a story, a movie,

a far-off land).

* ^ Often, it seems

I’d rather be there

than here. ^

How would I describe me?

Distantly dreaming.