Tag Archives: aging

Moment of Perfection – Poem #30 – From the Archives

Posted on March 29, 2020 by toritto

I don’t recall which day it was of the thousands I have lived when I realized that nothing lasts and what a shame it was that perfection is for just a moment before the downward slope begins. I don’t know … Continue reading →

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Old Blue Eyes

Posted on July 5, 2016 by toritto

Toritto in 1982 at40 No, this is not a post about Frank Sinatra! If you were lured here under false pretenses as a lover of Sinatra please accept my apologies.  If you are interested in why I picked the title … Continue reading →

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Patience and Prudence

Posted on January 18, 2016 by toritto

A re-post from a year ago. At a corner table of a Wendy’s an old woman sits every morning bent over her paper, her coffee and half eaten egg patiently awaiting further attention. In the banality that is old age … Continue reading →

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Super Bowls, David and the Passage of Time

Posted on January 11, 2016 by toritto

Super Bowl Fifty will be played in several weeks.  Usually the NFL uses Roman numerals to designate the game – Super Bowl L – but apparently this year the league decided too many of us dolts don’t know enough about … Continue reading →

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25th High School Reunion

Posted on January 1, 2016 by toritto

I saw her at the ’84 reunion a little older, a little grayer, the first fine lines on her porcelain face;   inhabiting the body of a stranger while here in the yearbook we are all preserved; the teen beauty … Continue reading →

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That’s All There Is

Posted on December 14, 2015 by toritto

Watching toddlers frolic at the shore with squirt guns, building sand castles under the watchful eyes of their beautiful MILF mothers sitting nearby in sun hats moist in the heat, beads of sweat collecting in swells and creases, I realized … Continue reading →

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Going Home

Posted on December 3, 2015 by toritto

You go back to the place you grew up and find it’s changed houses and bars that are no more the ones still standing,  unrecognizable and you see her now, the teen beauty of your youthful dreams a cocktail waitress … Continue reading →

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Running With Stars

Posted on November 20, 2015 by toritto

I am nothing I do not exist I am invisible with no Facebook page no Twitter follows Does anyone know I’m here? Hello? in the vastness that is space and time how many thinking beings have lived and died forgotten? … Continue reading →

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Time Flies

Posted on September 22, 2015 by toritto

It’s after midnight It was nine when I turned on the lamp, sitting here, neither reading nor talking alone in the house who is here to talk with? Only the shade of my former self reminding me of earthly pleasures … Continue reading →

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On Time

Posted on September 17, 2015 by toritto

There is no time; only the motion of decay the chaos of the defined dissolving into infinite Sitting still, the world spins the sun moves, galaxies speed nothing seems to change while nothing remains the same between glances decomposition, degeneration … Continue reading →

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