THE WISDOM OF OLD AGE # 3

 

I have found that

Making a living in life

Is not the same thing

As making a life

BEST BEFORE 1980 # 3

I was asked by a practicing Buddhist

If I could remember any past lives

I replied I couldn’t confirm yesterday

Without consulting the archives

IT WAS PITIFUL TO SEE # 1

 

It was pitiful to see, He was totally inept

Basic problems he was struggling to deal

He’d struggle to pour water from a boot

With the instructions printed on the heel

IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

In the English language,

In my view

The longest sentence

Is clearly, I do

THE ABSENT GIFT

 

The man explained why he hadn’t

Got his wife a gift for her birthday

The previous year he bought her

The nice plot in the cemetery

That she had requested, and she

Hadn’t used it, and he was unhappy

AFTER GETTING HOME LATE ONE NIGHT

 

After getting home late one night, very drunk,

He sees something that will forever scar his brain

And the consequence of seeing two of his wife

He quit drinking so he wouldn’t see that again

SHE PUT THE ASHES IN AN EGG TIMER

 

She put the ashes in an egg timer

After her husband’s final breath

So he would at least be useful

Around the house after his death