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Oldie Eh!

Old age is
BAD
Bloody Awful Days
Period.
@80

Style / type: 
Free verse
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I want the raw truth, feel free to knock me on my back
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I you get knocked on your back, you won't get up again! Maybe I will feel like you in another six years, but I don't think so! Com'on, it ain't all bad! Just mostly, heh heh. Why don't I see you at Chat on the Darkside? Chicken? ~ Geezer.
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I love chicken and chicks
but deaf sorry GEE

author comment

you get $2 off at the movies.
You get to remove your teeth at night.
They call you "sir" in the elevator
You get to join the sea of white hair at the piano recital
You get a lifetime pass to National parks for $20
Medicare, O blessed medicare
No stress at losing the job. No job.
Tailgaters don't bother you
You get to use a cane, just like the dandies of the 19th century
You think less about having sex with half the women you pass. Free at Last!
You can be a grouch, it's expected.
You can write poetry about being old, and
You can write poems about death more concretely
because now it is real, and visits you for confessions in the night
You can cuss freely
and
you can look at the world with the eyes of wisdom
and laugh at how stupid you were

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Eumolpus
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance
ee cummings

you can look at the world
with the NOSTALGIC eyes of wisdom
and
LOL
laugh at how stupid you were...
NO I AM
KINDness Friend
we shall meet someday
if not today
rgds

author comment

I am the host of 2 workshops in the D,C area. One I’m the youngest by far, mostly “kids” in their 20s and 30s. Now at the other one I’m among the youngest, most in their late 70s to 90s. They are both great but the old ones have such a wealth of reading and experience, it is a great joy and we never stop learning from each other. I hope there is a similar group in your area. Engaging directly with other poets is so important.
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Eumolpus
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance
ee cummings

you are young enough and I old though
I have no poetic group here
ONLY FREE VERSER born ever
rgds
appreciations Eumol

author comment

Sorry repeated message
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Eumolpus
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance
ee cummings

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Eumolpus
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance
ee cummings

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