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WISDOM LEARNED BY DEFAULT


When you are young
You know everything
Older you have to
Write it down so you don't forget
Older I am the better I wuz
Kids say you are making it up
What is embellishment anyway?
Remembering it the way you want to
Poets call it plagiarism
Just say it is Wisdom
passed down before Senility
Allowed because of Seniority
Alzheimer's is the ability to forget
Have an excuse to openly lie
Wisdom is learned response
To face growing old
Why are people so mean to me?
Still a kid just older
Takes time to know everything
If I told you the way it wuz
You kids would be bored to death
Marriage was between a man and a woman
Drugs were for fevers and sickness
Kids could play safely on the street
Perverts had to hide indoors
Gas stations had workers not machines
So did local grocery stores
Gee might that solve the work problems
Mexico was south of Southern California
Spanish was a foreign language
Kids of parents who paid taxes
Worked in the fields for summer money
Mail is delivered on a computer
Newspapers and kids on bikes dying
Gee Mr Prez where have the jobs gone?
I liked the old out with the new














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