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The Older We Get

John Grey

Seated in 

front of the television

on a Sunday afternoon,


clutching the first beer

of what is now 

a five-pack,


a fat packet

of chips at the ready,


cursing at or cheering on

the New England Patriots,


he has become 

his own father.


The old man died of a heart attack

six months before


so there was an opening.

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