(8.4.1929 / Marton, Lancashire)

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! ! The wisdom of a strifetime

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...

Submitted: Sunday, March 16, 2008
Edited: Sunday, March 16, 2008

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  • Danny Reynolds (3/16/2008 9:41:00 AM)

    I love the way you used 'while'. STRAIGHT after ''meanWHILE'.
    Danny; ¬)

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