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Thr Grandeur of Age

Published June 13, 2021 by Nan Mykel

Thanks to Dr. Horty Rex for mind-blower post which reads:

Which made me wonder about him, and to save you time have looked him up, but too much pro and con to cover for you at some wide-ranging Google posts. Thanks to Dr. Rex, without whom I would never have known about him…

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Photo by Taronga Zoo on April 29, 2014.
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    Taronga Western Plains Zoo has continued its Galapagos Tortoise breeding success, welcoming two new hatchlings! The hatchlings will take 20-25 years to reach their full size and may live up to 150 years!

    Our photo shows the tiny pair next to…..Taronga Zoo (@tarongazoo) • Instagram photos and videos
  • tarongazooVerifiedSmall, bigger, biggest! 🐢

    Taronga Western Plains Zoo has continued its Galapagos Tortoise breeding success, welcoming two new hatchlings! The hatchlings will take 20-25 years to reach their full size and may live up to 150 years!

    Our photo shows the tiny pair next to…..

Just You Wait!

Published July 21, 2019 by Nan Mykel

I CAN’T                                                                                                                                                Play hopscotch any more                                                                                                                        Nor skate across an icy floor.                                                                                                                 I know headstands would break my neck                                                                                           I drove my car and caused a wreck.

It’s hard to write a funny verse                                                                                                              ‘Specially when you’re glum and terse.                                                                                                I wonder if I’ll ever see                                                                                                                            a poem sadder than my knee.

Oh I know it could be worse–                                                                                                                 I could have Trumpkin as my nurse,                                                                                                    Pointing at me and saying he                                                                                                                Would never make a pass at me.

BUT                                                                                                                                                     Now I don’t have to clean my plate                                                                                                  Or remember to stand up straight                                                                                                   Oh what fun to say shit and damn                                                                                              while chasing Mary’s little lamb.

Yet no one tucks me in at night                                                                                                          or hugs me as my mother might.                                                                                                        Home made peach ice cream’s the best                                                                                           I’d not swap it for all the rest.

I STILL KNOW                                                                                                                                Little Orphan Annie can say                                                                                                               “Watch out for the Goblins today.                                                                                          They’re bigger than ever                                                                                                                    and terribly clever–”

Citizens United foretold                                                                                                                    The capitalist manifold                                                                                                                    That can squeeze you to death,                                                                                                Enjoying your last breath.

I guess there’s a Devil after all.                                                                                                       Call him a Goblin, you say?                                                                                                             But the evil’s outrageous,                                                                                                                 And even contagious!

GOOD LUCK                                                                                                                                       For the next century–                                                                                                                       I’m outta here.

JUST JOKING                                                                                                                              Though not very funny, I guess.                                                                                                      The whole thing’s a horrible mess.                                                                                                  Oh I’m moved now to barf,                                                                                                                   Do watch out for the scarf!

NEXT SCENE                                                                                                                                Maybe it’ll be better after my                                                                                                                   next round trip down home.                                                                                                             I’ll be pushing up sod                                                                                                                  Second only to God.

You watch; I’ll be back.

 

Old Man Fred –flash fiction for d’Verse

Published June 15, 2019 by Nan Mykel

Although age and poverty had taken its toll,  when far away an interrupted cry woke him from his sleep, he shuddered.  He knew he lacked boundaries, was too easily empathic. That tendency had led him to  panhandling in the evening of his life.  It was getting more and more difficult to arise from his seated position on the sidewalk and retrieve his upturned hat from the pavement before him.

Someone at the Center had stolen his flute, so he had  nothing left to offer passersby than  the one song he could remember all the words to, Old Man River.

The children still stood round and begged their parent for a dime to drop into his hat. The children stared. The adults avoided his eyes.  He thanked them all.

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