The Dirty Old Man

Adjectives and Adverbs mean everything.

I once was MAN

   Just having fun,

Someone could say

   I was just YOUNG.

 

Then I lost my

   Modifier,

I got a wife,

   Bills went higher.

 

Now I've reached

   The ripening years.

I've Added OLD

   Without a tear.

 

But as all things

   Begin to fail;

You can now add,

   DIRTY, to male.

Author's Note

I bet you didn't see that one coming! Ha!

Reviews

[angelina neves]

Oh! :)
And in a way I believe we just "fantasize" too much about the "fun" we had when we where young� I suppose that what comes to our minds is that "if we had known better" we would for sure take much more advantage on our "being young" � but we didn't! It passed away and most feel that getting "old" is just "loosing" something very important: youth, agility, never ending time notion and things like that! And most seam not to see that "old" also means some "experience gain" and "serenity" and � (what ever!) that makes us live more "fully" our own experiences (if we look at the bright side of them!)

[Zatoichi]

thanks for the smile

[J. A. Svercek]

This was an incredibly amusing piece, though inherently sad, but as G. B. Shaw said: "Life does not cease to be serious when people laugh any more than it ceases to be funny when people die."

I don't know if this is misunderstanding on my part, but what do you mean by "modifier"? Is this like "pacifier"?

Thanks for writing,
J.

[Samuel Dickens]

I thought you were describing me. I'm old for sure, and if anyone looked inside my head... well, you can guess the rest. Try not to feel too bad about it, LSS, you're not the only one with failing parts.