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scribbler
Jun 13, 2011 ⭐ View statistics (Premium feature)

MID-LIFE CRISIS MAN

There you are in your new car
a convertible two seater
on the way to a nudie bar
an old bald headed cheater

At least, you would cheat if you could
but nobody takes the bait
did you really think they would
resign themselves to such a fate?

And now an errant puff of breeze
reveals a Donald Trump comb-over
a result which is bound to please
any girl who looks you over

So turn your radio up real loud
( too vain to wear your hearing aid )
drown out the laughter from the crowd
of young women smirking in the shade

For all us old farts who actually think they can cheat time lol

About This Poem

Style/Type: Structured: Western

Review Request Intensity: I want the raw truth, feel free to knock me on my back

Editing Stage: Editing - rough draft

About the Author

Region, Country: South Carolina, United States, USA

Favorite Poets: Frost, Burns, Longfellow, Poe, and Johnson. I guess you've noticed these are all past masters. Other than folks on site I don't read any contemporary poets .

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scribbler

14 years 1 month ago

hello

My way past mid life crises car is a 1993 ford truck lol...............I decided long ago to age disgracefully...................stan

S

scribbler

14 years 1 month ago

hi

WHAT??? you need to speak up lol.......stan

loved

loved

14 years 1 month ago

i meant

M U S I C A LLLLLLLLLLLLL
U MAY CONSIDER IT AS LOLOLO.OO;LOL

wesley snow

wesley snow

14 years 1 month ago

CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?

Not one of your best poetically Stan, but the subject was spot on. Although there seemed too many details to write from your imagination. R&D? Except for the identical (over) which I don't have a problem with if it's part of the "trick" of the poem and not just another rhyme, I wouldn't change a things. An anthem to old men. May we lose less dignity than when we were young and didn't care.
wesley

S

scribbler

14 years 1 month ago

hello

Not really meant to be all that great, just a semi-humorous observation lol...........stan

S

scribbler

14 years 1 month ago

hi Jayne

I have always thought it funny when a guy in his fifties thinks some 20 year old loves him for anything but his money lol. I wanted to age gracefully with white hair, but instead it has been disgracefully with no hair lmao.........stan

S

scribbler

14 years 1 month ago

hi

Must work for Susan, but for her to run her fingers through my hair she must now go to ears rofl

K

Kailashana2

14 years 1 month ago

O Stan, you're still quite

O Stan, you're still quite the man!

I adore your self-deprecating humour, and love Kal's *trumpover*...that should be *coined*.

However, it's all about energy. I have felt Barry and some young thing *connect*, and written
scathing but good poems about it. GRRRRRRRRRRRR. He, of course, says it never *happened*. What else would I expect him to say?

~A

S

scribbler

14 years 1 month ago

hi Anna

Barry wasn't connecting. What he did was hormone driven not heart driven lol.........stan

K

Kailashana2

14 years 1 month ago

Hormones? Well, yes, there's

Hormones? Well, yes, there's that, we're all chemicals, reacting. But we're also the energy that these chemicals be they hormones or not, emit and produce.

Yes, his heart was not with me in those actions.

But then again, I, too have had minor indiscretions...wondering how things would be with someone else. lol.

Must be the poet in both Barry and myself. Such wanton indescretionary (where is he, anyhow?) lust. Did he not want to return?

~A

TheUnknownAuthor

TheUnknownAuthor

14 years 1 month ago

Aaargh!

The mental images!!!
So, apart from making me snicker, and then almost spray what I was drinking all over the damned screen, this was quite interesting. Hopefully not a frikkin' insight into my future however... *Shudders*
I think I might just leave you guys for a while, go get myself a porch, and cruise the streets while I still have my own hair. The sooner the better, right? Hahaha!

But this was fun, Scribbler. Thanks for a laugh, man.

Yours

Waldo

TheUnknownAuthor

TheUnknownAuthor

14 years 1 month ago

A porch!? Oh hell!

Porche! Sorry!
Hahaha! Might be quite odd, me cruising the streets on an entire porch... Ya think?
Then again... Hmmm...

S

scribbler

14 years 1 month ago

hi Waldo

Be sure your PORCHE is not a convertible. That way when comb over time comes you won't have to sell it lol.........stan PS beware the lengthening fore head

Candlewitch

Candlewitch

14 years 1 month ago

Dear Stan,

Very humorous indeed, and so accurate, too! My hair started going silver when I was twenty-five, not gray, not white, but silver, LOL! I was quite vain about it,until it was all cut off because of blood clots dried in it when the ulcer ate into an artery in my stomach and I vomited tons of blood. I guess it must be karma for the vanity. Steve is losing his hair rapidly but it isn't really graying. And I love his balding head all the more because he is mine!

always, Cat

S

scribbler

14 years 1 month ago

hi Cat

My hair started going long before it started going white lol. BTW did you know male hair loss is caused by an excess of a type testosterone ? That should make Steve feel a bit better............stan

themoonman

themoonman

14 years 1 month ago

Stan ...

I just stopped in to do a little reading on my way
to the nudie bar and look what I find !!!

this describes many men when the time hits ...

good read, thanks for posting this smiler

K

Kailashana2

14 years 1 month ago

you mean.....................

you mean...............................................you............................................go................................................to.............................................................nudie bars?

tsk tsk tsk, your eyebrows will grow hair and you'll have to comb them over.

~A

S

scribbler

14 years 1 month ago

hi Richard

Strip joints are a great place to buy clothes because they're always at least half off there ..........stan

Race_9togo

Race_9togo

14 years 1 month ago

Um.....

What's a "nudie bar"?
heehee

Good stuff Stan, I know a cuople of guys that your poem describes exactly.

S

scribbler

14 years 1 month ago

hi

Nudie bar is where dyslexic Nubians go lol.............stan

S

scribbler

14 years 1 month ago

hi

Depends upon how long at sea lol

S

scribbler

9 years 1 month ago

Hi Jane

A former member was the first to show me that poetry could be humorous so once in a while I try to give folks a chuckle. I'm pleased a minor edit gave this a chance to laugh at old farts like me lol......stan

jane210660

jane210660

9 years 1 month ago

Stan.........

Stan.........
I live with one, but I love him anyway :-)
Just trying to persuade him to sell my old sports car (BMW Z3), which he has taken to swanning round in. He's a little more inclined to let it go, since he got major sunburn on his ever growing bald patch.
Not only is it sore, but has brought home to him, just how big that patch has become...... :-)

S

scribbler

9 years 1 month ago

God

only made a limited number of perfect heads. He hid the rest beneath hair............I'm not really bald I just have a VERY wide part in my hair lol.......stan