Rip Van Winkle 2015

"in the papers of" the past, given to, again, the past,

as fiction, in the intro, in the story.

What amount of time is 40 years?

Snooze a revolution and return, it's not so long, 

familiar faces, older, but that's fine.

To Rip Van Winkle is a verb to me,

a danger. I hate my shrewish wife and all, of course,

but that's just for the humor, that's no problem

or was it 50? 60? That's still fine

I Rip Van Winkled that, I think,

that party, textbook, life event, the news

If I sleep through revolution then what of it?

I mean, I'm no one (ask my wife!) but that's

the point.