Young,birthed,we pick up eyes
and ears and tongue and speech and walk away from source
Scrape and scratch and rash and cut and bleed
Cadmium SHREK made in China
Melamine milk too.Soon,all our childhood will be outsourced
We will export movies and technology
like Japan after World War 2.(replicants)
We pick up weights-jobs,relationships
until we crack under too much
and start to sail into age.This harbor cruise different
to the slim canoe /kayak of thin youth
First we bloat in Middle Ages-balloon face
and moon middles.Next we diet like the Third World
to release all we have taken on like second mortgages
One by one,we start to let things go-
garage sales ,estate sales,gifting,we let ourselves go-
casual,elliptical,slower now and stuttering
with a code we picked up in adolescence
no new young wish to know.We are 78 in a 331/3 whirl.
Analogue in a digital.Wristwatch to a telephone.Our batteries go flat
We experience an energy crisis.Drink RED BULL/energy drinks
Creak like retired rooster in another's barnyard arm
Our pirate days are Hawkeye /Long John Silver
All the young recall is Johnny Depp.
They keep dropping eggs around the barnyard
Children dropping children with no elders
Grandparents rearing a Third Generation
You begin to forget your youth,settle in for the duration
Health becomes a tissue,thin as tax
You are slow as the newspapers they throw upon your lawn
Mornings are now a decision-whether to rise
or wait for yet another counted calendar day to pass?
Your passport has been stamped before you were born.
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