'January 11, 2006' (for RC)

'January 11, 2006'
(for RC)


Alas, it's true, no thing will last,
'Who's Paul McCartney?' (the young thing asks)


Where went the bright and curious lad?
The loving son? The brand new dad?


You're paying dues and taking licks,
and.... 'Omigod, two thousand six!'


You feel flushed? -- it's global warming,
Gone, gone, gone, America's morning,


Colonoscopies and all,
Fibre, fats ......cholesterol,


(On camera an aging Biden)
Foreheads wax and bodies widen,


Johnny Damon comes and goes,
Mother Earth's rotation slows,


Resolution's just a pose,
While spirit flags, and passion's froze,


Oh woe! the race is nearly run,
and Winter clouds block out the sun,


The world he knew is quite undone...


Raymond Cooney's Fifty-one!
-jjorge