ADDRESS BOOK.

I still use an old fashioned address book. The main drawback is that it needs regular updating. Hence this poem.

I do this every year.

Who’s in, who’s out

Crossing out the names

Of those no longer here.

One day far away

Will I look at the names

I crossed out today

And ask who were they?

And years from today

Will someone I know

Be doing the same?

Crossing out my name.

© Andrea Neidle, My Life in Poems