The young man exhales
Releasing his smokey breath
A prelude to the
Moment of his body’s
Inevitable death
Spiritus Espirit
Aghast
For now he will continue
To inspire
With his magnetic imagination
And electric presence
For now he will conspire
To awaken from the dull doom
Of social acceptability
Of narrow norms
With his perilous peers
His fellow angelic castaways
Adrift on the sea of midnight soliloquy
For now he will inhale
And exhale again
For now he will continue
To respire
More beautiful girls will
Cause him to perspire
So much more
Will transpire
Before his vessel
Will finally
Expire