WHEN / AND

A THROWBACK IN TIME :

– when time was a lot slower
– and you were a lot quicker

– when winters were colder
– and summers were cooler

– when phones were stuck to the walls
– and you HAD to talk to people

– when you never got what you wanted
– and were surprised at Christmas

– when you did ?

A – *CURMUDGEON’S – TAIL:

*cur·mudg·eon  /kərˈməjən/

noun

– a bad-tempered person, especially an old one.

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As I sit in my chair, living in the past,

No longer light, nimble and quick;

I ponder and moan and think quite a bit.

About a dream I once had

​That suddenly went to shit.

 

 

Too weak to say “NO” to his best friend – the “Man”.

Wanting to be a successful Businessman.

Had no money, and neither did I

Nothing but credit cards and a score that was high.

But I loved him so, and that was the catch

The credit cards gone, and the score down the hatch.

 

 

He’s living his dream, and life is just fine

While I sit here and fume, cuz I just lost mine.

No touring the Country, no Flinging the Chute

To take pictures on high with a landscape so cute.

 

 

 

The trailer and the Chute in a Hangar reside

Along with a ‘Coupe nestled by their side.

Will they ever someday travel and fly ?

Only Time and Money will decide.

A LATE IN LIFE DISCOVERY

IN THE BEGINNING

It was 1951.

The boy next door and I went to the local town beach.

He was a year older than me. I was five.

It was when I first became physically close to someone outside of my immediate family.

Our bodies touched, and we put our arms around each other.

I liked the boy next door simply because he liked me back.