“This is it,” my father sighed when he turned forty. “This is it,” he repeated throughout the next decade. I wondered if this it was hardwired, if it was in my DNA. I decided it wasn’t. No it for me. Fast track the adventure. (Source: "On Turning Forty", 40x41: Midlife Crisis Postponed) [Excerpted from a four-part introspective poem that fluctuates between prosaic and caustic, ...