3RD CHILDHOOD---a poem by O.L. Buzzerd
when men get old
they do silly things
and people say old men
have gone into their second childhood
as old men we revert to doin
stupid childish things
that only a kid would do
at my age I have progressed
way beyond that
I am currently eyeballin' my 3rd childhood
and am full of tricks and
cantankerous behavior
my experience is that
the longer you live
the dumber you become
so I figure by the time
I'm done
I will be like an infant
unable to walk or talk
I've already lost my teeth
so I caint chew gum
and all my hair is gone
so I'm bald as a baby
what I don't look forward to
is the diapers
guess it Depends
on how desperate you are.
O.L. Buzzerd
(the long and short of it is, old men are unrepentant kids,
who to their families give, more grief than what they get.)
M.C. Newberry
Tue 5th Jan 2021 23:28
Age-wise, I am probably considered to be in this category but make
no claim to it. Indeed, living in solitary contentment, it is other often
far younger people who seem to be in a state of permanent infancy,
with bags of bluster, clamorous claims to "rights" won by others,
and lacking the balance of redemptive self-discipline. Get out of my life and out of my way, kiddo! ?