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Mar 11, 2020

Oldie Eh!

Old age is
BAD
Bloody Awful Days
Period.
@80

About This Poem

Style/Type: Free verse

Review Request Intensity: I want the raw truth, feel free to knock me on my back

Editing Stage: Editing - rough draft

About the Author

Region, Country: UNIVERSE...ETERNITY C/O ME, ROU

Favorite Poets: All across the Internet whom I read

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Comments

Geezer

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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Eumolpus

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 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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