Why do I have so few visitors?
My oldest comes four times a year, but showers down clothes.
My youngest calls once annually.
My ex remarried: lasting over twenty years.
I won’t stoop to watching TV’s clamour.
Old friends watch a little TV and recommend watching often.
My radio is my priceless nighttime gift.
Well, in my seventy-second year, should I wildly seek the
opposite sex and risk being labeled a “dirty old man”?
But these bones have known a marriage of almost twenty
years, quite a bit of education, love again on the rebound,
children, travel, and a lengthy work history and knowing that
marriage for solely companionship is long gone in our day.
So I’m left with music and writing as my main endeavors, and
physical pain, varying each day, is included in my experience.
But all in all, I’m safe here. That’s about all one can ask in this
earthly sphere. I consider I am as ready for what comes
hereafter as I ever will be.
~ Julian K Schellkopf
