December Echo Turn
Thursday, December 30, 1999
you're carelessly turn
ripping open calendars like a box of cracker jacks
i say turn “it’s not the end of the millennium
there’s one year to go”
you turn say, “do you claim you were born on the year of your
first birthday?”
turn to let november turn december turn
the weather’s not paying attention
and I am practicing 2000
in curly script we’ll go
to new york city turn new ball drop turn
watching on the tv set turn too much traffic
turn new years day december echo turn
Tahneer Oksman
The author is a junior creative writing major at the University of Pennsylvania. This poem, provided courtesy of Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania, is one of a series on the Commentary Page celebrating the turn of the year/the century/the millennium/everything.