Saturday, April 05, 2014

Thirty Days of Lent: Day Thirty-Two

Reverse Living by Norman Glass


Life is tough.
It takes up a lot of your time, all your weekends,
and what do you get at the end of it?
...Death, a great reward.
I think the life cycle is all backwards.
You should die first, get it out of the way.
Then you should live twenty years in an old-age home.
You get kicked out when you're too young,
you get a gold watch, you go to work.
You work for forty years until you're
young enough to enjoy your retirement.
You go to college, you party until you're ready for high school,
you become a little kid, you play, you have no responsibilities,
you become a little boy or girl, you go back into the womb,
you spend your last nine months floating.
And you finish off as a gleam in someone's eye.

2 comments:

Iva said...

ffilne andHoly smokes! You are my son, indeed! It has always been my supposition that God structured the whole thing incorrectly...we should come into existence as old people. Then as our lives "progress" we should get younger and younger. Our youth and childhood should be our reward (our heaven so to speak); finally we should leave this world as tiny babies, knowing tha

Iva said...

I started with Holy smokes! n I have no clue what that "fflne and" means.