Why?

I read that we may soon be able to stimulate our brains with electric shocks that will enlarge our capacity to learn and retain, that it may help with some of the awful problems that now come with age. I can’t wait, so I have to make my own electric shocks, like the one that I have every day—actually almost every minute—when I think about my lover. At ninety-two, I fell in love with a fifty-three-year-old poet, who fell into love with me too. We have an intense mental and emotional love tha...