Who is grateful for a long life
when that life gets just too long? ....
meanwhile, while
I can still cross my fingers without help..
there are things that it's taken
a whole strifetime for me to learn...
such as, cake tins work best upside-down;
and, praise is quite the best revenge...
Michael Shepherd
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-wisdom-of-a-strifetime/
