Category Archives: a man’s aging

LIKE A COMMUTE ON INDIA’S RAILWAYS???

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More hair-raising every year,

At least to this older guy…

Twenty-five miles

Of various trials,

He prays every trip and here’s why.

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Summertime  heavy traffic,

Northbound is never static…

Construction zones–

Several tight ones–

Vehicle flow is erratic!

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Each section needs different skills,

Mostly a matter of wills…

Drive forward hard

Give not a yard,

Take it high speed over hills!

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He stays in the slow lane,

High speed isn’t his thing…

Gradual loss

For him is his cross,

But happy he is still driving!

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–Jonathan Caswell

 

BEAUTIFUL HUMAN CLOTHES MODEL!

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Notice in the street,

Comments on clothes you meet…

Bring offense

And a person’s defense,

On remarking their fashion is sweet!

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Women do this all the time,

Acceptable with little crying…

But a man

Threatens and can,

Be thought too personally prying!

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So glad that Demi Monde

And others don’t mind my response…

Half-way ’round the world

she’s a pretty safe girl,

No way I’d swim that “pond”.

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Being nearly sixty years-old,

I suppose I’m being bold…

If I earn their trust

I never will bust,

Out of my harness until I’m too old!

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–Jonathan Caswell

 

 

KAZOOED A TUNE!

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The variously talented

“Kazooed” with trumpet lips,

For nurses walking down the hall

In timing with their hips (?)…

The tune seemed familiar

In a winsome way,

THE YELLOW ROSE OF TEXAS

Said he when they went away!

THE YELLOW ROSE OF TEXAS,

His favorite hooray!

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–Jonathan Caswell

A parody poem!

AN N SCALE RS-3M-?

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(Image of a Housatonic Railroad RS-3m  found on Google)

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A long-held modelers’ dream,

Doing custom modeling…

Certain railroads

Extended locos,

Lives economically!

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RS-3 diesel engines on the main

Were rather hard to maintain…

EMD units

In crashes came though it,

These newer engines to the RS-3 came.

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The ALCO RS-3’s “two-forty-four”

Diesel engines were used no more…

They put an EMD

Into the RS-3,

Made a hybrid which lasted years more!

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This modeler’s vision is fading,

Tiny N scale’s quite a lading…

Too much for me

Small parts to see,

The project he’s begun evading.

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–Jonathan Caswell

 

ABLE TO BE DISABLED?

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His doctor says this he should do,

His social worker, too…

Would he qualify

When give the eye,

He’s not so sure he’d get through!

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It means being out of work

A whole year, of being inert…

A chance he’d take–

Make or break–

If failure he’s left in the dirt.

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According to rules on line,

He might not make it this time…

Discomfort and pain–

He can drive all the same–

And nowhere near the fine line!

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He thinks: put up with his leg’s,

Discomfort in order to beg…

The question at hand

Understand,

He has things that he can’t renege.

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–Jonathan Caswell

 

SOW FORGETFULNESS—!

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He heard he reaps what is sown,

But didn’t think of his own…

Medicine slips

Lead to nurse quips

To having it to them shown!

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😦

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–Jonathan Caswell

FORK LIMBO

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Not talking of bent underneath,

But forks whose existence ceased…

Unexplainable

Evidence unobtainable,

The hair on this head duly creased!

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Unexplained portals in time,

Is this what happened to mine?

Does a quantum mechanic

Have something for panic,

Because of something stealing him blind?

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If he washes dishes,

His answer may be less suspicious…

This lazy gourmand

At the bottom of his pond,

May discover forks propitious!

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–Jonathan Caswell.

TELLING WHERE HE WAS GOING

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Mike arose early today,

for a meet of A.A….*

To describe

Destination took time,

I needed pointing the right way!

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Villages in that town,

Literally surround…

All sorts of names

While the mills have changed—

Some have been knocked down!

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He forgot the exact name,

And so we played the game…

Known landmarks

Encompassing arcs,

Not always thinking the same.

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Then he “came in” another way,

And light flooded in–HOORAY!

It was good–

His meet in Linwood–

To which he drove away!

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–Jonathan Caswell;

*A.A. is Alcoholics Anonymous.  Mike is over 35 years sober.

JUST WHEN I NEEDED IT!

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Caught by vertigo,

Felt like falling so…

Had felt signs

Ignored at times,

Blood sugar had gone low?

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Not sure if Parkinson’s the cause,

Just knew severe balance flaws…

Leaned on the cane,

Managed to remain

Upright till the dizziness paused.

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–Jonathan Caswell

THE “JOY OF WIRING?”

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Wiring my  layout N scale,

Electric efforts fail…

I like dreaming

industry scheming,

But not putting wire to rail!

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Tried a professional job,

The timing and wait played hob…

with my funds

My skills poorly done,

It didn’t work out, there Bob!

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Now back on my own,

Have to manage alone…

Diorama \’s cleared

Bare layout’s appeared,

I have to get this done!

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–Jonathan Caswell

Photo by the author–a portion of his N scale train layout.