[WikiEN-l] WP:V strikes again!

[Al Tally]

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote:

> http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2009/05/18/090518po_poem_frazier
>
> "And so, at last, I am turning forty,
> In just a couple of days.
> The big four-oh.
> Yes, that is soon to be my age.
> (And not fifty-eight. No way. That Wikipedia is a bunch of liars.)
> Nope, not any other age, just forty.
> What other age could someone born in 1969 (and not 1951)
> Possibly be?
> (And please do not listen to my ex-wife, that sad, bitter woman in her
> late fifties.)
> What does it feel like, old bones?
> Yes, I have lost a step or two in the hundred-metre dash.
> I accept these changes.
> But if a guy says in a published poem that he is forty,
> As I am doing here,
> It’s obvious that must be the age that he is,
> Officially."
>
> --
> gwern <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l>
>

So is he 58 or 40? His article currently says he was born in 1951, but
there's no reference.

-- 
Alex
(User:Majorly)