Friday, April 19, 2024

Birthday Numbers comic poem 398 by Angela Lansbury

Birthday present. Photo by Angela Lansbury.


 When all's said and done 

It isn't much fun

Being aged one

Nor a hundred and one


Can you remember when

You were just ten

Do you think about it

Just now and then?


However, there's plenty

To say about twenty

Twenty-one, life's ahead

Lots of bread, lots of bed


And thirty's not bad

There's more fun to be had

Baby, maybe, even forty

You can be quite naughty


I've seen some at fifty

Still agile and nifty

And if they're not rich

They're expertly thrifty


And as for sixty, and seventy,

I'm sorry to say

As strength fades away

Much to say, do and pray


And when you are eighty

It's your right to retire

But the tax man demands

Work, forms, 'til you expire


Please don't ask me my age

I reached secretive stage

When I don't tell my wage

I've said, done, enough, filling this page.

-ends-

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