Simple Math
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Simple Math
By David J Walker
100 seems to be the magic number
Numbers less than 100 are the lesser…More than 100 are the better
100 on a test …100 meters to run…100 miles per hour…100+ for fastballs…100 $$$
My father lived 26 years < 100
And his father only 11<
My mothers father,
a man I should have, but did not really know
Lived 5 years < 100…and very close to 4
if that counts for anything
I knew a man who was 102 …2 years the >
and still smoke cigarettes and drank
A shot of honey bourbon whiskey every afternoon at 3
I knew a man who died suddenly
At 48 years < , one afternoon alone
They said it was the curse of genetics and
There was nothing they could have done
I wonder how 100 holds its magic over us
A simple goal of getting old
And then you’re gone
Copyright © David Walker | Year Posted 2020
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