Dangling conversations......

“Lost in the dangling conversations
and the superficial sighs,
are the borders of our lives.”...Paul Simon


It’s all about death and taxes, ain’t it? Almost all my conversations this past weekend were either related to health issues or politics....
Somebody told me that the best thing about ‘old age’ is that it don’t last too long (Da-Dum)...Well, heck, there ain’t any segment of your life that lasts too long. Youth, they say, is wasted on the young and parents worry about their kids growing up too fast and not having enough time to just be a kid....And that celebratory flush when you turn 21 disappears almost before the first hangover is gone.....and we all kind’a back into middle age....it ain’t happenin’ to me, I’m still young, Migawd! How’d I get t’be thirty?......and suddenly, without any effort on your part, AARP starts sending you ‘stuff’.....(yuck).....and all of a sudden, celebrities are looking older and magazine articles state that ‘Sixty is the new Forty’.....yeah, of course it is.....and black is the color of your love’s new hair and every conversation you c’n now recall concerns itself with pills and operations and ‘so ‘n so is looking really bad.’
And politics, c’mon....you gotta think that this election has just gone on too darn long....the Democrat primary was so divided that Republicans were laughing at them....it ain’t so funny now.....that division has spread to the ‘hull damn country......this may be the most divisive election since 1860 when we had three parties vying for the presidency and Abe Lincoln won with 40% of the vote...
It’s comin’ down to the wire with Obama ahead by a nose
‘n Bobby Barr ‘n Pecos Bill hanging like a dead weight to McCain’s coattails....
McCain’s a little guy with the Rocky Marciano style....he takes a lot of punches but he just keeps movin’ in throwing that jab, throwing that jab.....and Obama’s doing that ‘ropeadope’ Ali shuffle but we don’t know if he c’n take a punch....I used to wonder what would have happened if Ali had fought Marciano...Marciano was a short guy who couldn’t box worth a tinkers damn but he could hit. Archie Moore said, “Marciano hit me in the left arm ‘n I couldn’t use it no more, then he hit me in the right arm ‘n I couldn’t use it no more.....then he hit me on the chin ‘n I don’t know what happened after that.”
McCain needs to hit Obama on the chin.