
<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 26pt; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; color: rgb(84, 130, 53);">On Aging Gracefully</span></b><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>by Chris Embrick</div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(72, 72, 72); background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">I'm still adjusting to growing old </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(72, 72, 72);"><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">My hot flashes have been getting cold </span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Not the golden years I expected </span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">My private parts oft go neglected </span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">With every day the truth is clearer </span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">That there's a stranger in the mirror </span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Choice years I filled with wishful bragging </span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Now tethered hope of youth is sagging </span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">My bowels forget who's in control </span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">I wake up with me arse a dragging </span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Me pee's but a trickle in the bowl </span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Excitement now's grocery bagging </span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Aging gracefully, I'm not consoled </span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">I'm still adjusting to growing old</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><br></div>————————————————-</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">However, on the good-news side . . . What can’t get up, can’t get out.<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/">http://www.moscowcares.com/</a></div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><br></div><div>“A stranger is just a friend you haven’t met.”</div><div>- Roy E. Stolworthy</div><div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>