Average looks but good health
better than his graceful wife
battling one ailment or another
for the last thirty
of their fifty
years together
"What's worse than getting old?",
he cautioned,
"not getting to get old"
"Ageing beats the alternative
that leaves one with
not much to choose"
"And at my age, you could
get away with anything",
he said winking at the nurses
hobbling
his creaking knees
down the hospital corridor
as his graceful wife
smiled a smile
all too familiar.
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