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My 67th Birthday in Matlacha, Florida
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Birthday party among old people

 

My 67th Birthday, Matlacha, Florida

 

 

Once I vamped for Julius Caesar

Now I'm just a wizened geezer

 

sitting out on the lanai

watching pelicans fly by

 

drinking stale Long Island wine

which like me is past its prime

 

listening to my hoary friends

contemplate impendent ends

 

cancer, dementia, ALS,

bodies failing, minds a mess,

 

though our span of days be few

we're going out for barbecue.

 


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 Reviews of "My 67th Birthday in Matlacha, Florida"
Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on September 13, 2012
This is truly funny… Cracks me up. But, on the serious side, you are far too young to be out to pasture yet. Maybe it's the Florida got you. ;-)

Ron

Reviewed by Richard Cederberg
Reviewed on September 13, 2012
Cracks me up how you put this under action-thriller. It is, indeed, an adventure becoming the 'hoaryite'. A good blend of funny and serious. Now ... about vamping with Julius Caesar ... do you have any pictures?


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