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Carole Roseland's avatar

1. A champagne mane—no silver, thank you.

2. A nice trip over to Kroger with my coupons.

3. Vanguard website with 2-factor authentication and nary a financial advisor.

4. Keep working to fund #’s 1, 2 and 3.

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Kim Nelson's avatar

"Tell me, you with your sweats,

your sparse hair and cratered savings, your heart beached

on a chimeric pharmaceutical reef,

what’s the plan for your wild precious golden years?"

OOPH! Reality sucks.

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Deborah Kay Kelly's avatar

There she is, Miss America

There she is, your ideal

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X. P. Callahan's avatar

ha ha ha ha ha 🤣

“The dream of a million girls who are more than pretty / can come true in Atlantic City”

or not

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Katharine Kaufman's avatar

I love space and feeling good--to wander freely...even just in my kitchen. And I love that I can appreciate new definitions of what perfect is. In case you or anyone is asking. hah!

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X. P. Callahan's avatar

Or as I like to say, “Just in case anybody drives up and asks.”

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Katharine Kaufman's avatar

That's so funny! I'm going to add that to my repertoire!

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Jim Sanders's avatar

‘chimeric pharmaceutical reef,’

Great line. Great image. Love the use of the word chimeric which works for me on multiple levels. Yet, all the levels co-exist but not mix unless shaken like oil and vinegar when they co-exist for a moment in time before separating slowly into different layers.

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Angela Cummings's avatar

This is absolutely marvelous. "Portfolio wrangler" "...your heart beached on a chimeric pharmaceutical reef" and then the Mary Oliver nod at the end. Fantastic.

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X. P. Callahan's avatar

Thank you, Angela.

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Victoria Nordgren's avatar

This is why the kids say “ok boomer”

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Cathy A Wickham's avatar

Their day will come! Not a second too soon!

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X. P. Callahan's avatar

"The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks / That Flesh is heir to..."

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T. De Los Reyes's avatar

Real! And felt.

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Mary Roblyn's avatar

There goes Mary Olive-air

in her Wild&Precious cycling wear

No helmet, only helmet hair,

Wild and precious Mary Olive-air.

(You’re welcome.)

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X. P. Callahan's avatar

ha ha ha ha HA! 😂 And, yes, thank you!

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Margaret Ann Silver's avatar

Hilarious:

"Their silver manes came in lustrous, all at once,

uniform in shade and becomingly styled."

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X. P. Callahan's avatar

😁

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Bruce's avatar

My plan? Find a nice cardboard box, and learn to live on air.

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X. P. Callahan's avatar

See you under the bridge.

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