Astronomy

So there are a lot of things that I was going to do over the Summer that I never did. Many of these things began with the letter S. I did other things instead, and I have plenty of regrets.

Here is one regret: On more than one occasion I thought about poems I know involving stars. I always remembered First World and The Song of Wandering Angus and Poema Veinte. There's this other poem I memorized in high school - A Song by Joseph Brodsky, and it's been bugging me for a while that there's one line of it that I couldn't remember. Last night I looked it up, and it's this: I wish you were here, dear, I wish you were here. I wish I knew no astronomy when stars appear, when the moon skims the water that sighs and shifts in its slumber. I wish it were still a quarter to dial your number. The one part I couldn't remember was I wish I knew no astronomy when stars appear. I really regret not having remembered that line because it's one of my favorites in the poem, and I could have added this to the poems I know about stars when thinking about those things. Also, who knows how many girls would have fallen in love with me had I remembered it? Seven or eight is the best estimate according to this site.