BORROWED TIME

There sure are a lot of us!

We said so in the sixties,

called ourselves a “population

EXPLOSION!” (3.5 billion)

Knew way back then there wasn’t

enough of anything to go around.

But now (7.7 billion) we can’t

worry about that, ‘cause inside our

virtual walls, we’re all we’ve got.

You and your sick mama,

who keeps you so busy you can’t

even think about yourself, much less

THE WHOLE DAMN WORLD!

And who cares? By the time the

s**t hits the fan for one last fling,

we’ll be dead anyway, or dying,

or wishing we were.

Copyright

Vol Lindsey

4/29/2019

Reviews

[Ken Simm.]

Excellent. A really important and righteous rant. This is the truth in poetic form. As we used to say Right On Brother.

[John the Baptist]

Alas, we baby boomers have all grown up.

[Lorry]

Not enough hours in the day for some, and not enough daze in the hours for others.
The unpaid carers of the world give up luxuries like time and commit to caring while the rest of the world forgets, while this new fangled generation(s) worry about what to tweet and likes and taking thirty more photos of their vapid selves and the compulsory pic of the lunch or coffee they didn't have the brains to make themselves!
I'll stop there as its too early to grumble and I must save all my anxiety for todays possible title decider between our oldest rivals.... (Soccer to you guys) 😊
Its important to spend all my angst during these games. Gets it out my system 😊
Ps we are 9 points ahead with 8 games left on our way to winning our eleventh league in twelve years, hopefully.
COME ON THE CELTIC!!! 🍀 😊

[Vol]

I have no idea how old you are, Lorry, just that we have the same dim view of what will become of our world after we are gone... Tr 21st centure has lost all sense of shame, integrity, honor and the value of glory. I had a professor friend who said years ago, "When the lights go out for good, this generation will starve to death trying to read the directions on a book of matches."

[Lorry]

Ha! I'm 54, but Ageing in dog years thanks to long covid.
Oh, and we won 3-2 today, so basically the title is ours... Again 😊

[Vol]

Hahahaha! i'm in America and feel about team sports the way turtles think about flying... I'm glad you
won, though... even poets need a break sometimes...

[Lorry]

We do indeed.
I think like for the most, supporting a team I'd a family tradition, when asked, all I can say is "well my dad supported them and so did his dad", which sounds kinda feeble but it does keep the connection alive long after they are gone, like they get to pull up a cloud every Saturday and watch from on high. 😊
But I do see your point, it is more tribal than scribe-al 😊

[Vol]

It is probably quite strange for my father to be looking down on me and thinking "Where did I go wrong?' For some reason I have a difficult time being an excited spectator, maybe because we moved around so much when I was young and living at home, never in one place long enough o bond with friends over one team or another... I don't know.