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Not Cool
The padded jaw.
Nothing says age on a man like the padded jaw. I don't want to die old, I want to take all the trappings of youth with me to my grave, and keep them with me in the afterlife. Incontinence is not cool, enlarged prostates and cancer are not signs of a body able to transmute genius in art and culture. No one writes about the joy of bloody stool or getting fat or losing one's mind or taking 27 pills to stay alive. If it gets to that point for me, I can only hope that assisted suicide is legal and cool so I can go out young. But if age gets to me before death does, I'll grow a beard to hide my padded jaw so I stay cool. © 2014 Nicholas Emeigh |
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Notes: This poem was written on Monday, February 3, 2014.
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