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How To Know When You Are Getting Old

How To Know When You Are Getting Old By Elton Camp Well, there is longer room for any doubt When the senior discount is asked about If your little black book somehow came To have nothing but the doctor’s name A dripping faucet isn’t just an irritation It engenders immediate need for urination Because of pain, you feel much less delight And whatever doesn’t hurt, won’t work right Open a newspaper and it’s with great speed That the obituaries you will begin to read Glean in your eye isn’t due to passing lasses But is a reflection of the sun off your glasses Your are certainly getting well along in life If the gray-haired lady you help is your wife Yet another thing that will drive you wild That middle-aged person is your own child Old age has about caught you, it is so true When your back goes out more than you

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