I’m almost seventy.
I haven’t worked in at least six years.
How am I doing cognitively?
Well, my propenclities
are still in place. No fear,
at almost-seventy,
of proper gravity—
partly because I gave up beer.
But to return to the how-am-I-doing-cognitively
question: my spelling is
shitty,
and my handwriting is some of the worst you’ll see.
But at almost-seventy
I still have pretty good energy—
I walk six or seven miles a day.
OK, too bad I’m so dodgy
about my remaining marbles.
Never analytically-
inclined (I got a low math score on the GRE),
at almost-seventy,
I’m faring surprisingly.
