Bueno Cerveza

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On earth I am no more 

or less alive than yeast 

and Olympic athletes

but I remember I’m always

finding new things to like.

 

Like the way we agreed on stars 

as appropriate symbols

with which to rate operas and seafood.

 

Like the way a single star 

can receive a five star review.

 

I like how no one I know gets older 

unless they’re absent, 

aging privately and suddenly 

like pears.

 

I like the way that language

can be briefly terrifying 

until you learn that the words

‘die American...’ 

‘die Single...’

‘die Quick...’ 

are only the fragmented beginnings 

of sentences in German.

 

And I feel young.

I feel young

in the way I feel fluent 

in a foreign language 

when someone speaking it only says 

the only two words I know.