Vingt, Èrshí, Twenty Comments

Congratulations on being twenty or twenty something. With maturity comes some responsibilities and the excuses of the past can no longer hold. Beautiful poem

*** old bag: American slang: 'an ugly or ill-tempered woman' OK, anais, I THINK you 'have a few years left'. : )

Have you ever WORN a 'shrug'? ? What's a 'teenager'? ? ? AND, yes, you are an 'Old Bag***' now!

Vingt, Èrshí? [ at the age of 20? ? ] anais, STOP using Chinese or....? [[ I'm 'too old' for 'this'! ! : ))))

Thanks for leaving a breadcrumb trail so we could revisit our own teenage glow, however vicariously.

Now it is time to bedeck PoemHunter's fusty halls with loose-leafed pages from the manual you are compiling: NEGOTIATING YOUR TWENTIES