72 Miles From The Sea

Wednesday, 25 August 2021

Middle age is the time

When it takes you all night

To do once, what once,

You used to do all night

“I smoke 10 to 15 cigars a day”

George Burns said when he was still a thing

Approaching his hundredth birthday

“At my age I have to hold on to something”

January 20^th,1896 - March 9^th, 1996

The World when I was a young man

Now that I’m old my wish has changed

And I want to change the young if I can

I think I may be past my best

Because I popped out to get milk

And return home two hours later

With a tin of paint and no milk

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

They are having to remake

The Ewok movie

As they now identify

As Shewoks apparently