Degeneration Blues - At Fifty
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Here is what 60 looks like. I still jump but only on a trampoline!!
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Andrea Dietrich
July 10, 2016 ·
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My neck is stiff; my hair has strands of white.
I exercise . . . . . metabolism slows.
yet still I have my teen-aged appetite!
Bad eyes (beneath them sometimes tiredness shows).
But worse, there’s crept upon me something new.
Degeneration of the disc I’ve got.
I’m much too young for this to happen to!
My shoulder hurts; my back’s begun to rot.
No more should I wear heels or jump or run.
I have to take more care and shouldn’t moan.
Perhaps in time some healing may be done.
Such fun! My hope’s for bone to fuse to bone!
So now I’ll shun tough work with good excuse,
and soak in bubbles my old sore caboose.
April 21, 2017
Exaggerated version of problems I began facing back when I was 50!
Other things since then have made my early 50's issues mild by comparison!
Copyright © Andrea Dietrich | Year Posted 2017
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