Hetvenkedő

Author: Miklós Vámos
Binding method: hardcover, with protective cover
Publication: 2020
Publisher: Athenaeum Publishing
Page number: 152
I've been writing limericks for about twenty years, and in these five-lines I express my sorrow and joy, i.e. myself, as briefly as possible. What just happened? I turned seventy. So, it's time for me to turn 70. Sorry for the pun, but really. I asked the poet Anna T. Szabó to mark the ones he would leave out of the five-line poems I had selected (forty percent of the set). He wanted to pray some back instead. I didn't let it. I quote from his preface, blushing: "Life is a great treasure...