Jack Ellison Poet Limerick

Twenty-Three Thousand

Wonder how many breaths we take in a day
So I looked it up and here's what they say
23,000 is the big number
8.5 million a year, what wonder
Roughly 675 million if you live to eighty

(at 82 I'm working on 692m)

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Patricia Cresswell September 30, 2017 at 2:10 PM All of that work sure deserves a hurrah. So HURRAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Patricia Cresswell September 30, 2017 at 10:02 PM If you do that I will never speak to you again! Jack Ellison September 30, 2017 at 3:36 PM Sometimes "puffing" is involved!!! When I write and tell you my breathing has ceased......... :(

Silent One September 30, 2017 at 12:56 PM Wow... thats a lot! Im half at the moment.. Jack Ellison September 30, 2017 at 3:33 PM Live healthy and you'll make it like this old fart!!! CHEERS!!!