{"id":1944,"date":"2010-11-19T11:28:33","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T19:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2010\/11\/marsha_burns_-_i_grow_old\/"},"modified":"2010-11-19T11:28:33","modified_gmt":"2010-11-19T19:28:33","slug":"marsha_burns_-_i_grow_old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2010\/11\/marsha_burns_-_i_grow_old.html","title":{"rendered":"Marsha Burns – I grow old"},"content":{"rendered":"

From The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock<\/i><\/a>
T.S. Eliot<\/p>\n

And indeed there will be time
\n
To wonder, “Do I dare?” and, “Do I dare?”\t
\nTime to turn back and descend the stair,
\n
With a bald spot in the middle of my hair —
[They will say: “How his hair is growing thin!”] <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Image (part of a series titled Shanghai Expo<\/i>), comes from Marsha Burns<\/a>‘ daily photo stream, which she sends to a fortunate few via email. There is no other way of seeing it. You have to know her. <\/p>\n

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There are, of course, other poses to strike on the way to the exit. I saw an elderly man walking with brisk good cheer around Green Lake wearing a t-shirt with the legend, “Don’t trust anyone under 70.” Andrew Marvell didn’t want to last that long. He was an early advocate of an attitude best known today as The Who’s My Generation<\/i> (Hope I Die Before I Get Old). Too bad Keith Moon didn’t live long enough to hear The Zimmers<\/a> sing his band’s most famous song. Their effort might have slowed down his forward hurtle. Then again, maybe not. <\/p>\n

From Marvell’s To His Coy Mistress<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

Now therefore, while the youthful hue
\n
Sits on thy skin like morning dew,
\n
And while thy willing soul transpires
\n
At every pore with instant fires,
\n
Now let us sport us while we may,
\n
And now, like amorous birds of prey,
\n
Rather at once our time devour
\n
Than languish in his slow-chapt power.
Let us roll all our strength and all
\n
Our sweetness up into one ball,
\n
And tear our pleasures with rough strife\t
\nThorough the iron gates of life:\t
\nThus, though we cannot make our sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Speaking of making the sun run, here’s, first, SuttonBeresCuller<\/a>‘s Merrry Go Round<\/i> and second, Miwa Yanagi<\/a>‘s Grandma<\/i> and Mineko<\/i>.<\/p>\n

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