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My word you do look queer

You’re ninety two, well blow me down

I never would have guessed

You look so young and sprightly

And seem so full of zest

You’ve got your hair, its all your own

Your teeth are yours, not false

The way you talk, it’s obvious

Your mind’s intact, of course

What’s that you say, I’m sorry

Sometimes I can’t quite hear

It’s fifty two, not ninety

My word you do look queer

© John W Fenn 22-05-2009

— shazbat, May 22, 2009

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Region, Country: Norfolk, UK, GBR

Favorite Poets: Kipling, T.S Eliot, Hilaire Belloc, Ogden Nash, Spike Milligan and many more.

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yenti

yenti

17 years ago

John

Another little Gem that past them by, just like that King and his mates, Never mind it was a great little ditty, not very pretty but I would say more, a Four LOL You Take care out there, Yours Ian.T
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Skumpfsklub

17 years ago

Well enough done

It's cute, catchy, short and rhymed. And it does encapsulate neatly a paradigmatic exchange over one's actual degree of decay in comparison to one's expected degree of decay at some age. Therefore I've always claimed to be 23. I also add, "I spent my youth very, very badly."