I to experience that. I want to be in the Piazza del Campoin Siena, to feel the surge as ten racehorses go thundering by. I want to have a meal in Paris at L’Ambroisiein the place des Vosges.
I want to drink a bottle of wine and then another. I want the warmth of a woman in the cool set of sheets. I want One night of jazz at the Vanguard.
I want to stand on summits and smoke Cubans and feel the sun on my face for as long as I can. I want to Walk on the Wall. Climb the Tower. Ride the River. Stare at the frescos.
I want to sit in the garden and read one more good book.
Most of all I want to sleep. I want to sleep like I slept when I was a boy.
Give me that. Just one time.
That’s why I won’t allow that punk out there to get the best of me, let alone the last of me.”
