you wouldn't survive
without a full
time nurse, which means
mother
or father, or someone
tending to your basic needs.
and then
the early years
arrive where you need
assisted
living,
not quite ready
to leave the nest.
but soon
you begin your long stretch
of independent living,
depending on
almost no one, not even
a husband
or wife.
eventually though
you circle back
to assisted living,
and then at last, full care.
you have arrived once more
to the spoon feeding
oatmeal years.
savor the middle,
it doesn't get any better
than that.
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