(Ed. Note: Although this one is by far the shortest of the four Simon published with us this week (one more tomorrow). The observation and its grand dry wit says much more than what has been writ on forests of murdered trees since the invention of the press-Leila)
As I get older
Increasingly I’m learning
Why all people die
Saragun Springs 
I’m uncertain if Simon’s brief poem reflects his dry wit–which he does definitely possess–as much as it shows a man’s resignation to the inevitable. I sigh along with Simon and all his readers with a similar realization. Truly, in the end, we all push up daisies; the rest is just noise. What’s the lesson? Maybe: find fun–and love–where and when you can. Simon said so much more with just 11 words.
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Simon
Though really just a single thought it it expands in the mind and raises endless questions and images.
Leila
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I liked the above caption equally as well as the sentiment below. Both are powerful statements. They kind of leave you with a click in your throat.
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Simon
This piece is apothegm or aphorism as poem, and as such, it says something universal about humankind.
Saying something universal about humankind is very, very rare, much, much more rare than most people think, especially since most people never think about it, including most writers.
In our materialistic world, money is the very first thing on most people’s minds, even, and often especially, most writers, and even, and especially, people who are already wealthy and do not need more money (because that’s how they got rich in the first place and being rich doesn’t change you for the better).
And yet money itself is not a universal topic in the way birth, aging, and death are. Almost unbelievably now, humans existed for hundreds of thousands of years, literally, without money. Yet they still got born, aged, and died.
Great work!
Dale
PS
I’ve noticed that none of your poems are about money and all are about more universal topics.
PPS
There will come a day when money disappears again, like when universal basic income becomes necessary or the remaining humans are forced back onto what remains of the land…
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