When I consider my senescence

and my built in obsolescence,

I find there are legions of bad habits

I must eliminate from my existence.

Like when I must surpress my… LUST!!!

for a second or even forth dessert!

My wife and I love these big, round cookies,

(we call em, BLACK n WHITES).

Nancy loves the chocolate half,

I, the vanilla.

so we buy two or three at the SnL Deli

and store them in the freezer

to be savored, slowly, one at a time

during the following weeks,

carefully splitting then in half,

making sure no skid marks

of offending chocolate or vanilla

stick to our favorite flavors…

Our stash won’t be replenished

till the next time we drive to Wilmington

for Nancy’s appointment for her

“Fairy Hair”

or for me with my proctologist!

Well!!!

That evil habit has to go!!

Hell!

We’re both pushing 80

with shorter and shorter brooms!

Ya think savoring 2 vanilla halves

at one sitting’s gonna make me

die before my time when

eating one won’t????

If hoarding those delicious treats

over two weeks is too repressively prudent,

BUY TWICE AS MANY AS YOU USUALLY DO!

8 rather than 4!

A bakers dozen in stead of 6!

The cashier at SnL won’t think any the worse of me

and I’ll get to taste that heavenly vanilla frosting

whenever I damn well please,

before or after my colonoscopy!

And what about that puritanical urge

to get up after I shut off that damn alarm clock?

WHY BOTHER???!!!!

Even better,

Don’t set the thing the night before!

You’ll probably wake up sooner or later…

But just because you’ve opened your eyes

doesn’t mean you have to rise!

We need permanent vacations

from our precious vocations

of “Saving the whole world….every day!!!

THAT’S SO OVER!

Take the time to touch and talk to your

precious pillow partner.

(Who knows what else might

“GET-UP”

in the mean while?)

Oh!

There will come a time

when we can’t get up even if we wanted to.

When one sleepy morning,

I won’t wake up at all!

Ain’t nothing gonna stop that day from coming!

So stay in bed for the time being

if you want to….

wrapped in those snuggly fleeces…

Milk that ticking clock

right down to its last tock!!!