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MIRROR MIRROR ON THE WALL




Fifteen I looked in saw a zit
My oh--my, what a fit!
Seventeen there was some stubble
Not enough for shaving trouble
Twenty my nose was broken you see
For in a boxing ring you found me
Thirty I was worried about my hair
It was long and growing everywhere
Ar forty the girls would stare
There is something about a man in middle age
To worry about health now is sage
Then a few years beyond sixty
Retirement coming oh so nifty
Girls would say you don't look a day over
But for a paunch the cliffs of Dover
At seventy, gray hair, signs of balding
Push it around color pepper and salting
Still the mirror lies says I'm looking good
Sans the cane on my own legs I've stood
Mirror mirror I was once six feet three tall
Now I am under the lines put on the wall
Mirror mirror I can't hear what you're saying
No more basketball I am playing
And less and less on these legs I am staying
To reach ninety I am no longer praying
The eyesight going the hearing now lost
Obama instead of immigrants you going to pay my cost
The older I get the less important you see
Someday they will say I am a burden on society
I am going to buy a new mirror this one is lying
It shows me old and gray and no denying
You see I thought work hard Medicare would be there
Who'd a thought in greed leadership would not care
Remember the young boy looking at zits
He's worried not his world is in the pits








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