When I was born, I was one of
three billion,
seven hundred seventy-five million,
seven hundred ninety thousand,
nine hundred twenty-three
or thereabouts.
Today, I am one of
seven billion,
seven hundred fourteen million,
five hundred seventy-six thousand,
nine hundred twenty-three
or thereabouts.
At this rate, it would need a plague
or some great calamity,
a climatic holocaust perhaps,
for me to be
twice the man I was
or thereabouts.
Somehow I doubt the cliché
had statistics in mind when age
would strip my capacity
to less than half
the man I used to be
or thereabouts.