Not Lust And Rage Poem by Daniel Trevelyn Joseph

That what Virginia Woolf
Writes of James Ramsay
I would not have known
Had I been present in that room.

Stream of consciousness was a phrase
Known to me since my BA days
But now the inner life represented
Is partly understood only at 68!

Thanks to Brown University
And Coursera video lectures.
After college football, tennis as Supy,
I have not done external action.

It has all been reading, thinking
And writing, talking and lecturing:
The result is diabetes and blood pressure
Angioplasties, & sub-arachnoid hemorrhage.

Still every fair, young, need not be
Pretty, girl draws my attention
Makes me feel happy to see her outline
Even if only for an instant.