Until my later years I measured 5 foot six in height
and then it swiftly fell to 5 ft 2,
it seemed, my spine deteriorated, almost overnight;
and all my pants are now too long, so what I’ve got to do
is take the hems up on them all, but there is something more,
I wear a brace with hinges on my knee,
and that means new, wide "leg-ged" pants would be a bigger chore
because new wide leg pants would also be too long, you see.
I think if I should get on that inverted stretching wrack
which several friends have told me feels so good
to help my suddenly shorter and bad curving, aching back,
if I passed out, still, I think I would.
One major problem that I see in getting one of those
Is I'd need someone to help me get upright,
and so that lets out having one because I live alone
and not a bloomin’ relative in sight.
You’re prob’ly thinking, what the heck, just trundle to a gym
The truth is, that would be my worst nightmare
I’ll just have to be content to being short and curved
and have fun anyway and just not care!