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Thread #126200   Message #3779804
Posted By: MGM·Lion
19-Mar-16 - 11:08 AM
Thread Name: Poems about Growing Old (and songs)
Subject: RE: Poems about Growing Old
The following, which I wrote after my first wife's suicide due to her increasing degeneration thru Parkinson's disease, being one of those situations to which old people are frequently subject, might perhaps fit into this thread which came back into my mind thru some train of thought:-

POST-PARKINSONIAN

Trying to keep going

In the teeth
0f the lethal
Mix of grief
And relief



Michael Grosvenor Myer

       15℔ May 2008