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.