Not So Mid Life Crisis

He’s having a big mid life crisis
It’s a bit late, I grant you, but true
It should have begun in his forties
And not when he hit eighty two
When he traded his wife for a new one
(She is thirty years younger, or more)
The old one was getting quite past it
So he told her, and showed her the door

He now spends his time, with fine dining and wine
And all of life’s pleasures and joys
From Italian suits and dying his roots
To a house full of gadgets and toys
In the garage there sits a big Harley 
And whenever the weather is sunny
He jumps on his hack, with his bird on the back
And they go out and spend loadsa money

But he’s not such a big hairy biker
Since when they return from the trip
He’ll sit down in front of the fire
For a cocoa, and afternoon kip
As his old aching bones start rebelling
And he ponders upon his past life
All the things he has done, the women the fun
But most, how he misses his wife
Copyright © | Year Posted 2010


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Date: 6/20/2010 6:16:00 AM
funny, can't imagine at 82...LOL who would have the energy??
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Date: 6/20/2010 3:26:00 AM
Ha! Weather 42 or 82, there will always be some kind of consequence to 'pay' for the fun of a mid-life crisis: ) This was wonderfully written!
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Date: 6/20/2010 3:17:00 AM
Nice expressions well penned
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