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Open Poetry #50

When Did it Happen?

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

0 posted 2017-11-03 05:25 AM

When did it happen?
I’m really not sure,
maybe somewhere
around fifty-eight
I got old.
Not old, old.
Not elderly.
Slow,
some gray showing
and dumpy.
And if God
Blesses me with life
through the end of December,
and I make sixty. . .
Well, to tell you the truth
I hadn’t thought much further
than the newest grandbaby
coming in May. . .
Oh, and my daughter’s boyfriend
put a down payment on a ring,
So I really should try to make that wedding,
“three to five” years from now. . . .
Then there’s retirement,
I don’t want to miss out on that.
(the way I got it figured, I can afford
to retire ten years after I die)
Point being,
sixty makes it official. . .
I am of an age
no longer middle.
Curses on whoever says
sixty is the new forty.
I am as old as I feel
and the zippity
has left my do-da
in the dirt.
And every day feels
like gravy.
Actually everyday
is gravy if you think about it.
And right now,
I’m thinking about it.
I’m thinking about things
I need to change
if I want to grow older.

LGR©11/3/17

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

1 posted 2017-11-03 07:10 AM

Try 78.

~ If they give you ruled paper, write sideways. ~

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

2 posted 2017-11-03 07:56 AM

It is a goal! ~L

Bluesy Socrateaser
Member Elite

since 2002-11-07

Posts 2417
In The Mirror

3 posted 2017-11-07 02:15 AM

quote:
"I’m thinking about things
I need to change
if I want to grow older"

Isn't "thinking and changing" what we all spent too much time doing already? Doing things impulsively and spontaneously...now maybe those two drivers deserve a turn, Miss Lori.

...just bein' Bluesy

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

4 posted 2017-11-07 05:40 AM

Bluesy,
"impulsively and spontaneously" otherwise known as me getting a wild hair. Yes, it is lovely and rarely disastrous. ~L

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