Short Pensioned Poems

A bullet ended life:
Another pensioned wife,
And little children who
Recall a suit of blue, 
And father they once knew....

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Word-Worker

Thee procurement and collection
Of this smattering of letters
No matter your predilection
For future employment of type setters
To criss and cross all the tees and eyes
Paying close attention to the prose
Transcribing thine inner reflections width and lengthwise
In all subsequent rows
By paying out the aforementioned
It may be held in contention
That without future authorship; I would be un-pensioned.

16NOV20...

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We may not look forward to being old,
But there are perks for those of us who get to be old,
Which is a perk in itself. 

If you become old enough to be pensioned off, 
That gives you more perks,
If most of what you have still works.

But the perks that I find give one much pleasure,
We get in good measure,
Without spending one cent.

Most of the time we get to choose whether
To go out in bad weather,
And when the sun is out in winter we can get its full benefit....

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