Uninformed, or Old and Infirm?

 

Or just uniformly old?

Does it matter? Not much; never mind. As it happens, I was a little hazy to begin with, so there’s not much worry about the old marbles disappearing. Who really needs marbles anyway, except for a game-playing champ or, say, Michelangelo. For me, the touch of lunacy just adds a little color and a lively element of surprise to my everyday existence.pen & ink

Scaredy Coot

My fears are principally these:

Of sharks, the dark; of killer bees;

Of speeding cars and drunken louts

That race them through the roundabouts;

Bloodsucking leeches; of the kind

Of beasts that populate my mind

In doctors’ offices; of tests

That only earn me second-bests;

And most of all, I fall in tears

Lest someone should unmask my fears!

 

4 thoughts on “Uninformed, or Old and Infirm?

  1. Uniformly is better than helter skelter or intermittent or never at all, I suppose.
    Agree, totally, on all your fears. Promise to keep them a secret, as long as you reciprocate. We can’t have our weaknesses laid out for all to watch them drying in the sun, now can we? Like very much your style of rhyme beat out in rhythm-time…

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