Twenty-oh-eight might be the year
I get myself fitted for focals
The better to watch you with, my dear,
Because listening's driving me loco.
I suppose it is time a man of my age,
Learned to stop spending and save.
I'll be the master of credit and wage,
And of myself, as servant and slave.
Maybe i'm ready, on this trip round the sun,
That I plan for my workdays and weekends;
Frivolity being just one form of fun,
And discipline a game of pretend.
January's always a good month to inquire,
And contemplate new resolutions.
The eleven to come can bring back the fire
And prevent our jumping to conclusions.
RESOLUTION, n. The certainty bridging folly and doubt.
resolution,n. a human condition from sunset til sunrise
ReplyDeletewow. that was brilliant.
ReplyDeleteResolution: that which brings hindsight into focus.
RESOLUTION n. to solve again and again ... and again ... and --
ReplyDeleteI made a resolution many years ago that I have never broken. I resolved not to make New Year resolutions. I make my resolutions when and where they need to be made and I break them in the same manner. No point waiting until a special time of the year.
Sooooo, if certainty is the bridge and folly and doubt are the banks, then resolution must be the salmon swimming upstream.
ReplyDeleteNew Year's resolutions imply that one isn't perfect. Never make'm myself.
ReplyDeleteI wait until January 10th or so, realize that I've reached maximum density, and then resolve to lose weight. And I do. 'Course, I find it later.
What does age have to do with spending and saving? HA!
ReplyDeleteResolution: a purpose in the right direction.
Resolution: Doug's promise in 2008 to continue to bring us the Highest in Definitions.
ReplyDeleteThat poem sounds as severe as a hangover to me. How does a sober man know about it??
ReplyDeleteResolution, nobody is what he is but what he can be. :-P
re.solution - The act of solving the same problem over and over.
ReplyDeleteResolutions are promises easily broken without much guilt but at great wallet sacrifices.
ReplyDeleteHope I keep the one of cleaning my condo. You know it's bad when that's your only resolution.
Resolution: see the movie "National Treasure 1" for The Declaration of Independence.
ReplyDeleteI intend to be resolution free
in 2008
"Free to be me"
I can't wait.
That was wonderful
ReplyDeleteResolution: brevity--ha!
I have to say again that Doug's comment on my Fogelberg post was perfect
I will say this every day this week--that's a resolution I can actually live up to
I resolved to move...and today I did. So that's done.
ReplyDeleteAs far as making any more resolutions...I just hit re-play and they all came up again...unresolved *sigh*
see, i knew it was
ReplyDeleteonly a matter of time
until you started
making comments
about you suddenly
being so "old"...
i didnt bat an eyelash
until i turned 50.
then i completely lost it...
oh, and i dont bother
with resolutions...
i'm too old for that.
You must have resolved to continue to write terrific poems in 2008 because that one was a goody.
ReplyDeleteResolution: an end or a beginning
I resolve not to check back here again today just to see if you've read the comments. Hrmpf.
ReplyDeleteThe opposite of a commandment, Minka?
ReplyDeleteRight, Neva. And planning to the hind sight.
Quilly, your rigidity and strength are frightening.
Brown trout floating down, Icy.
TLP, you have some eating to do I expect. What's that place next to the waffle house?
Nothing I can tell, Terry. Not by my balance, anyway.
Al, thou hast said it.
Ariel, we are sober because the hangover comes without revelry.
Poobah, you and Quilly came to the same conclusion.
Jenn, that sounds like Jenny Craig to me. Good luck with the condo. We're all pulling for you.
Nessa, say hi to Marlo Thomas, too.
Pia, that was concise!
Mo'a the important goals are eternal.
JJ, I've been looking forward to being one of the old men in the balcony on the muppet show my whole life and tomorrow isn't promised, although baldness almost is.
Me too, A-bell :)
Thank you Jamie Dawn. I like your definition.
Oh, c'mon TLP. One more visit so I feel considered.
GUFFAW - Doug, my Bear and I just had a conversation siting those very old men in the balcony on the Muppets... we were referring to the Safeway employees sitting on the bench outside the store, judging and critiquing everyone who went by with their sacks full of groceries... Somehoe I can picture you extremely well in that capacity. huh huh huh... Do you love Sam The Eagle too?
ReplyDeletewell, then, congratulations!
ReplyDeleteif you can make it up the stairs
the balcony awaits you...!
see? who says
being an Elder
is no fun!
(Terry, i could dig socializing
with those curmudgeons
at Safeway...)
I was thinking more about my membership at Curves, Doug. I did receive a coupon for Jenny Craig today. I feel special.
ReplyDeleteA very nice poem, Doug. Thank you. I think your poem would fit Mrs. Jim for her birthday. My poem for her was corny.
ReplyDeleteResolution: I did it a long time ago. There might be one left over for me this year.
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Resolution: (1) Before Christmas, 'resolution' refers to an aspect of the new TV you're trying to buy. The goal is to maximize the width. (2) After Christmas 'resolution' refers to more personal aspects. The goal is usually to minimize your width.
ReplyDeleteOh, and Happy New Year Doug! Great prose as always.
ReplyDeleteright you are, Doug. kind of like "paying it forward", but with one eye in...wait for it... arrears.
ReplyDeletesorry, just seemed like the right bad pun to make.
oh, and in case anyone asks... i'm first. (despite the fact that your newest post is yet to be published.) ; )
Terry, I do, but my aspiration to the two old men goes back to my seventh year possibly.
ReplyDeleteThanks, JJ. I can still climb stairs. How many stairs?
Oh, good, Jenn. I was afraid it wouldn't get there.
Jim, sometimes it's a matter of perspective, sometimes digestion.
Happy new year, Morgan. All the best.
Neva, ba dum-bum!
i dont know, Puppy...
ReplyDeletei'm not old enough
to have climbed to
the Muppet Mezzanine
yet.
Optically speaking, resolution may be improved by "focals."
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year.
JJ, you still belong on stage.
ReplyDeleteWeirsdo, a new monitor, too. Same to you.
perhaps just as stage mother...
ReplyDeleteeven when i perform i so dislike
being onstage, or being looked at...
its kind of one of my many neuroses...