12/13/14

A new century offers many dates of beauty,
And I have saluted them in their turn:
01/01/01 on up to 12/12/12,
Including a son’s birth on 08/08/08;
The sequence dates like
01/02/03 or 07/08/09.
These have made me happy.

And on this day, the last of the sequences
Of this century,
I took a long nap
And I read some Narnia with my sons;
I watched my friends dance,
And I ate with my friends and laughed.

Should the world still stand
A century from now,
I could hardly hope for a better day
On this date
For my descendants.