First you lose your parents, then your spouse decides to drop.
Friends you’ve known a long, long time begin to close up shop.
Whether in Japan or Keokuk or Timbuktu,
The elderly grow lonely while Father Time is counting coup.
A little bit of kindness or romantic tete-a-tete
Is welcome as spring tonic when the time is running late.
Since no one else seems in’trested in your diminished life,
It seems a decent pleasure to take on a younger wife.
King David in the Bible was allowed such liberties.
Surely I can do as much, or more, if I so please.
I have provided for my new and frisky little bride.
(I only wish her omelets didn’t reek of cyanide.)
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