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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