Why poetry about how difficult it is to be in your twenties?

"Relax! Your twenties are the best time of your life!" -The Dalai Lama

(self portrait: With Bottle of Kombucha--Half Full?)

I started this plog because I googled "poetry about how difficult it is to be in your twenties" and I didn't find anything that interesting.

What a strange decade of life.  Or maybe, relatively speaking, it's not that strange.  I have only lived two previous to this one.  But I know that, suddenly, I have never felt more pre-pubescent.  Nothing like having a thousand constant daily reminders that you don't, in fact, have it all figured out to make you feel like you don't have it all figured out.

But alas, most of the world's greatest survived their twenties.  And so, there must be some kind of poetry within it all.  Here is to finding that poetry!  Or at the very least, striving to create some poetry within it. 

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Here we go...