Do you look your age? Comical poem number 777 by Angela Lansbury

 Do you sincerely look your age

When you're out having too much fun?

When you're so drunk you tell your age 

And people lie  - 'You look so young!'

Babies are born wrong years and days

Babes should smile or sleep all the time

They don't behave in baby ways

Ungrateful, cry all night, wake, whine

Some of them look like old bald men

When you undress them, then they go

Some babies small like opium dens

How would I know.! Just guessed - don't know

Then when teens grow and want a drink

They lie about their real birth age

They do not look the age you think

Drive, accidents, get in road rage

Then when they reach the age of thirty

People say they still look twenty

When they reacy the age of forty

Poeple say they look like thirty

When they reach the age of fifty

Nifty people say you look forty

When they reach the age of sixty

People say you look like fifty

When you reach your seventies

People say you look like sixty

If a few do not believe it

They never say it's like it is

Then when you reach severnty nine

You're still having a great time

But when you reach the age of eighty

You've reach the 'it's past my bed time'

Sadly the mirrors do not lie

And you do not fit in your clothes

too fat to walk, belly balloon

Or skeleton thin, gone 'too soon'  friends die

Your hair falls out, your legs give out

You need to wear reading glasses

You grow deaf, people say, 'Don't shout'

Younger folk stop making passes

And ageless singers who took drugs

Have faces like maps full of wrinkles

Now look like bugs living in fugs

Can't keep it up, keep needing tinkles