Things Not To Give Me For Birthdays
THINGS NOT TO GIVE ME FOR BIRTHDAYS
Chocolates because one is too many - the whole box is not enough.
Trying to wean myself off them is just too tough.
Bouquets of flowers because I would rather have seen them bloom
Happily in the ground outside my room.
Power-tool attachments to cut wood in fancy shapes
And add decorations of wooden petals, leaves, or grapes.
A year’s membership in a golf club or a gymnasium:
One is not really exercise, the other not really fun.
After-shave lotion because it stings and the pain I can’t stand.
Books about the Civil War which kinda imply I knew it first-hand.
CDs of old Rolling Stones concerts - songs most-ever sold:
For it embarrasses me to recognize rocker-guys so old.
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