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My body tells me that I am,
…With ev’ry ache and pain.
It wants to tell me to be bound
…To bed, by Time’s long chain.
But all the signals are denied
…By the essential me,
Which says it simply isn’t true
…That I am seventy.
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photo by Prawny at
http://www.rgbstock.com/photo/oRxvtji/Happy+Birthday
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© Dennis Allen Lange and thebardonthehill.wordpress.com, 2017.
The Bard on the Hill 
Happy Birthday Dennis! Hope you had a great day – by the way, I’m not very far behind you.
Thanks, and I did have a good one, including one of my favorite meals at Red Lobster, which included fried shrimp and cheesy biscuits. 🙂 And, as far as age goes with seniors – behind is better than ahead.