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How Did It Get So Late So Soon

How Did It Get So Late So Soon?

Lines on my face
How did that happen?
How did it get so late so soon?
Gray-streaked hair
and creaky old joints
How did it get so late so soon?

Can't think how to write
a line like Seuss
or personify a great big moose

No Whos here, no Fox
No Horton, no Sox
No cats and no hats
No Yertle the turtle
No counting fish
I'm starting to curdle!

How did it get so late so soon?
How did it get so late so soon?

                             08/07/2015

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Andrea Dietrich

Date: 8/14/2015 4:12:00 PM

aha, I found it!! Well, you and I certainly picked ONE Awesome quote of his. you took it toward all of life, and I so agree with you, Mary. I can't believe I am almost 60 now. HOw did it EVER get to be so late??

Mary Rotman
Date: 8/14/2015 5:57:00 PM

In your picture you look no more than 40. things become cliches because they're so true, and the experience of growing older is always a surpirse to use. I'm 53

Jan Allison

Date: 8/7/2015 4:54:00 PM

Great one Mary made me smile:-) hugs Jan xx

Jan Allison
Date: 8/7/2015 5:01:00 PM

I have such a collection of N/A in contests Mary I just accept my poem wasn't what they wanted and try again:-) hugs Jan xx

Mary Rotman
Date: 8/7/2015 4:58:00 PM

It actually made me smie too, which is unusual. I channeled this one. I didn't write it. Three of my very favorite poems all lost the contests they were entered in, yet a tosser like A Tourist Guide... win.