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39 X 2 + 1

7/8/2017

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                                                                           39 X 2 + 1

                               (How do you spell procrastination? 
                               This article should have been posted
                               in 2016. Then the appropriate title
                               could have been 39 x 2. Nothing like
                               being late, I say.)

                               "Well, honey, what advice do you think
                               we ought to offer to the Open Road foks
                               on this special celebration commemorating
                               our 39th birthday?"

                               "Thirty-nine, again? Listen dear you may
                               be able to fool some of your readers, but 
                               you can't fool Mother Nature."

                               "Hey, we don't look a day over 39."
             
                               "Honey, your days are going by so fast,
                               if they don't slow down, you'll get a ticket
​                               for speeding."

                               "Speaking of speeding, what about that
                               ticket you got..."

                               "Forget it. Just get back to giving sage 
                               advice to your readers before senility
                               sets in."

                               "Well, folks, as we leisurely approach
                               that time of life distinguished by mature
                               thoughts and habits..."

                               ("Oh, brother, if he were walking up 
                               39 steps to the gallows, he already would
                               have been hung twice."

                               "Aren't you going to wish us happy birthday."

                               "Happy birthday, honey."
                                
​                               (Originally written in June, 1978)

                                

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