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Long in the Tooth
When you turn forty, you feel it’s a crime.
Your teeth start falling out one at a time.
Your flesh begins sagging. Your hair, it turns grey
Poor eyesight comes visiting and then tends to stay.
You end up with flatulence, incontinence, too.
You even find it difficult to take a poo!
When you sometimes stand up, the world spins around,
And the next thing you know, you’re flat on the ground.
It hurts just to breathe, and it pains you to walk.
You sometimes have difficulty trying to talk.
Your memory is history. You know it is shot
When your best recollections come from when you a tot.
But it’s not all that bad. It could surely be worse:
Your butt could be riding in the back of a hearse!
©Deloris M. Evans
15 March, 2009
The Ides of March