Fountain of Cheese

[Achebe]

I found eternal youth
in mangled drafts and lines
to be,

my works you love "mature"
and soonest out of style
like me.

A full stop after the first strophe and a new line to begin the second (with 'and' replaced by 'are' in L5) made sense to me. I can't follow the sentence as it stands.

I like S1. The idea is that drafts of half written poems, mostly the 'first lines' that come to mind, are always a great source of inspiration...