Category Archives: Aging



Sculptors

Carving artists go way back, built the Sphinx.
Phidias, Myron, and Praxiteles,
Enraptured Greeks, shaped their gods, made us blink,
Awed by their skills and their creative ease.
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Posted in Aging, Beauty

Real Life

I take a hundred pills each week
I’m not sure why I do it
It’s not a prolonged life I seek
I’ve lived too long, so screw it.
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Posted in Aging, Today's News, Wisdom

Approaching Death

When you’re eighty-four, and wake up each day
With a creaky hip and a swollen foot,
With a body stiff, pretty much kaput,
You wonder at the lyrics of decay.
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Posted in Aging, Death, Pain, Wisdom

Life

You get born,
Then struggle to learn to walk.
Then you learn to talk,
Go to school, compete,
Graduate, compete again.
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Posted in Aging, Death, Pain, Religion, War, Wisdom

2/6/2014

Today’s my birthday.
My stepson called,
My eldest called,
And my youngest
(Not so young at fifty-one)
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Posted in Aging, Family, Pain

Holiday Travel

In my heart I know
They would prefer
The simple pleasure
Of serene routine:
A movie, a play,
A pleasant dinner out
At that amiable
Nearby restaurant.

In my heart I know
The reason.
They sublimate
Their real desires,
Submit to discomfort,
Painful foreign holidays.

The women they’re attached to
Are too young.
Marvin Klotz (10/3/13)
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Posted in Aging, Conformity, Friends