THANK GOD, I'M FIFTY

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It hit me like a blast.

How did it come so fast?

Half a century has passed.

A Half A Century

I have crossed the fifty-yard line
A silhouette of the past behind me
I fancy watching it happen
I am going

INTERMISSION?

Look in the lying looking glass
And tell me what you see.
I see adventure's boarding pass,
Not half a century.

The

WEDNESDAY'S WOMAN

Wednesday's woman,neither young nor old,
Remembers when she was Wednesday's child,
"Full of woe," her mother

Hey my buddy
Turning 50
That's me

Many ladies think
I am 18
Wish it was like that!

When they talk about
My hair
I say it is a