green with envy

The Act
by: William Carlos Williams

Although this man has a very unfortunate name... I find myself SO jealous of him.
This poem really speaks to me and I wish SO HARD that I had written it instead of him. I love how simple and yet deep it is. It says so much in so few lines.

"Ahh, we were all beautiful once"

When I read this, I instantly thought of Beauty and the Beast. The old hag that comes to his door with a rose and he turns her away. So she says that he'll remain a beast until he can find someone to love him. As I recall, the beast was a very attractive man in the beginning. A real lady's man. Then, his looks were gone and all he was left with was his "winner" personality. No one wanted to be around him after that. Not only was he ugly, he was a real jerk. Not even a hood rat would stoop so low as to marry that. So the beast was left alone.

"They won't last"

Once you're old and you no longer have that bikini body, you're really left with nothing if you aren't a good person. In other words, if you aren't pretty on the inside, getting old is really going to suck.

William Carlos Williams is a poetic genius. He gets it. I want to be a poet like him.