Could I go back in history to take a selfie, I
“Wouldn’t want to waste a shot with any old small fry.
“I’d get a shot with Mark Twain, puffing on his corn-cob pipe;
“I’d get a shot with Cleopatra, looking pretty ripe.
“Voltaire, Einstein, Dickens, and George Washington would smile
“Next to me — and P.T. Barnum, I might beguile.
“I’d get Michelangelo and me, holding his chisel;
“But a pose with Genghis Khan just might be a fizzle.
“I would try with Moses while he’s parting the Red Sea.
“King David and Goliath just might grin along with me.
“Only with my younger self would I refuse to pose;
” ‘Twould only be a record of how people decompose.”
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