old age sticks

Do you value the advice of older people, including your family members, your teachers, and other community members? Why or why not? Imagine that you are fifty years older than you are today. Write a short poem to yourself as a young person. What do you think you will have learned about life as an older person? What advice would you give your younger self? If you like, copy E. E. Cummings’s style in your own poem.