Birthdayku

Brithday week has passed
Staring fifty in the face
All downhill from here.

(It wasn't that bad;
Counfounding expectations,
A good one this year.)

But all is not lost;
I am not yet as old as
I'm going to be. 

Hang on to your hats!
Growing old disgracefully
Is the new game plan.  >:-)