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Breakfast at Sixty
After a lifetime of nuptials and regret of trips
to the marriage counselor the family therapist the support group
divorce agreement postponed
like spring cleaning or Halley’s comet for
yet another swing of valium-and-barbiturate
for-the-sake-of-the-children years and finally
the inevitable bathroom mirror realization
that freedom, balding gray-faced wrinkled freedom
is finally staring you in the face
You look at each other will to fight gone out
of you like two tired old footballs kicking abandoned now
for a bit of quiet some toast and marmalade
the crossword puzzle the news the way
the world goes on and on in sickness and in health
© Johnmichael Simon
2014
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