Category: Growing Older

I hear you’re having A birthday party And I guess you wish You were still forty? Well just stop and think, Before you shed tears, How old you would be Counting doggy years!

They were getting up in years, Their words were sometimes cross. Each accused the other Of a greater memory loss. One night she asked for ice cream With some chocolate syrup on top. She said, “Now don’t you dawdle You’ll forget it if you stop.” When the man at last returned, He had a breakfast […]

I am tooling down Highway Fifty Enjoying my time all alone. I hate that stupid ringing, It’s my wife on the dern car phone. The way that these nuts are driving She knows it’s dumb to converse. While I was turning the thing on, I just missed hitting a hearse. She thinks that just ’cause […]

The doctor sadly shook his head As he examined poor old Ben. “How long do I have?” Ben asked. The doctor frowned and answered, “Ten.” “Ten weeks, ten months, ten what?” Ben asked. “Is it something that you can fix?” The doctor just kept on counting; “Nine,” then “eight,” then “seven,” then “six…”

MY REFLECTION I looked into a mirror And I saw my mother there All the wrinkles by my eyes And the way I comb my hair. I thought “Dear God it Heaven, Have I really become her? In the way I treat my kids, And the lifestyle I prefer?” I told my oldest sister, “We […]