72 Miles From The Sea

Wednesday, 7 July 2021

I have found keeping a vegetable garden

Of potatoes cabbages and dills

Is without any doubt at all

Worth a medicine cabinet full of pills

I have a Universal Remote control

Which I have had for quite a while

But I tried for ages to turn on the Radio

It turned out I was using my mobile

You mustn’t let ageing get you down

It’s something you just have to face

And let’s not forget how hard it was

Getting yourself up in the first place

I sat down on a park bench

So, I could pull up my socks

Sadly, I wasn’t wearing any

God getting old really sucks

Long after needing bifocals and hearing aids

We still make love in the silent gloom

The only difference being that during the act

It would be difficult to tell with whom

Early to bed, early to rise

Makes a man healthy wealthy and wise

Early to rise, late to bed

Makes a man haggard fatigued and dead

Middle age is the time

When it takes you all night

To do once, what once,

You used to do all night