May you be blessed all day this day.
May you be blessed this night.
May you walk forth in happiness and
know that all is right.
Evil Genies
The Evil Genies I have known
take one’s devices as their own.
They find devices strewn around
and confiscate them sans a sound.
They move right in. They take them over.
They relish them like sweetest clover.
What once was yours belongs to them —
now treasured as a precious gem.
You cannot win. No use to try.
Device is gone. Just say goodbye.
The Age is of Technology and
was not meant for you and me.
Believe my words, for they are true….
genies do what genies do.
Cause trouble.
Daily Chores
I rise each morn and make my bed.
I fluff the place I laid my head.
I wonder why I do this stuff.
At ninety, I have done enuf!
Presidential Platform
I’m in the race for President.
I hope I’ll have your vote.
My platform is an easy one,
and from it you may quote.
No chores.
That’s it.
Full stop.
Just quit.
If you are sixty-five.
You’ve done your chores
for all these years
that you have been alive.
You don’t sign up.
You don’t enroll.
No deadline you must meet.
Just join with all us oldsters
who are voting with our feet.
So put your feet up on your couch
and vote along with me,
and you’ll live in a country
where us seniors are Chore Free!
A Lullaby for the Night
May your heart hear this sweet lullaby
as it fills the silent night.
And may this loving melody
bring gentle rest tonight.
Customer Service
Though once I was the best they’d got,
they kicked me out for a robot.
The robot doesn’t slack, or grieve,
take coffee breaks or go on leave.
The robot’s never late to work,
ask for a raise, and doesn’t shirk.
A robot’s not the same as me.
Can’t understand. No empathy.
And doesn’t try to make things clear
when folks ask “What is happ’ning here?”
You enter in 1, 2, or 3.
That’s not enough?
No sympathy.
Just go online.
Or let it be.
Just suck it up and take your loss.
The company must manage costs.
We’ve got to watch the bottom line
and profits are, for us, just fine.
The times are changin’, don’t ‘cha know?
And “service” is the first to go.
January Rain
Pitter patter.
Drip and splatter
cross the windowpane.
Pitter patter.
Plop and scatter
down the glass again.
Drip and drop
along the top
and trickle down the glass.
Raindrops fall
and soak us all
before the rain clouds pass.
Ending Daily Chores
I’d like to figure out a way
to end these daily chores.
I think about it constantly
both in and out of doors.
I think of it at work and play
and while I exercise.
If I can figure out the way,
I’ll win a Nobel Prize!
Making Resolutions
Resolutions, Twenty-Six!
Toss more goals into the mix!
List the places I fall short!
Rank, prioritize, and sort!
List the traits that I’d acquire
to be someone I admire.
But, wait! let’s pause a bit to see…
Could I become content with me?
New Year, 2026
We wake to find another year!
A year of joy, and great good cheer—
a year to know that we are blessed
with zest for life and happiness.
We wake to find ourselves renewed
with firm commitment to the good.
We wake assured that we will be
the kind of folks we want to see —
in the New Year of 2026!
Living the Aging Life 