Two Birthday Limericks from Steve
The Bard of Chingford Mount wrote two "cheerful" new Limericks on his 60th birthday. they follow: Reaching 60 I will be very very old. It won't be so bad I have been told. Will soon need a new hip and knee. Have to get up six times a night to wee. And need a hat and cardigan to keep out the cold Steve Marson There is poetic licence in this equally cheerful second Limerick. He did not have a hernia, but struggled for a rhyme for laryngitis (which he did have quite badly)! ... and he did not spend the day in bed crying! Those that say 60 is just a number are lying. I am 1 year closer to dying. I have laryngitis. A hernia that is hiatus. And will spend my birthday in bed crying Steve Marson RETURN TO LIST OF POEMS