A Selection of Doggerel by Howard Covitz

A Selection of Doggerel on the Path to Making Peace with Retirement

Published in Clio’s Psyche, 13:3, December 2006 (Paul Elovitz, ed).

I don’t recall any specific moment of change, though I do remember being amused upon waking one morning with the thought in my mind that I was old enough to be my father and it was about that time that I began writing doggerel – initially, quite depressive:

On the Fullness of Ink
The bottle of ink
Was but half-full.
Missing
Were all the words
That once filled
The fullness
Of the empty top half of
The bottle of ink.

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