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Is this an anaphora or an epistrophe? Not sure.

Me at 60


As I get older
And as I amble and imbibe
The wafting of the aroma of roses
And as I get older
I still rock (just not in a chair)
And I roll with the lingo
Of the younger generation
I think things are sick
I try not to throw shade
I think somethings are fire
I am stupidly blessed
(and I say in my Hampton Orphanage drawl)
One hundred percent
As I get older
I find (as Ben Franklin confessed)
That the God of Heaven
Governs the affairs of mankind
The good, the bad and the ugly
And as I get older
(I said older not old)
I am a work in progress
According to the Lord
And as I head to 
The autumn of my life
(The words of my Army buddy
And amateur sage Jack
Echo in my mind)
"People say 
I am in my own little world,
That's ok, 
at least everyone knows me there."
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