Eight-line Poems

Secondhand Thoughts

Secondhand Thoughts

In my youth I invented many things,
only to find, in later research,
that someone else got there before me.
Now I read, last in the list, thoughts in a cat scan,
an aging mind churning with bodily decay,
leaving muddy footprints through my territory,
when I thought geriatric ponderings mine alone.
Ah well, at least it proves it works.


Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 05.29.21
Prompt: Eric Ashford’s poem, Scan of a Fitful Man.