'n like that line from the old song, "it feels like it's rainin' all over the world.."
That's cuz when I checked the obits in the Portsmouth Times this rainy Sunday morning, I found an old friend listed therein....
We were both born in South Shore 'n I was older by, I think, forty-one days.....we started grade school t'gether 'n we graduated high school t'gether....Hack was a comedian as funny as any stand-up I've ever heard....he'd riff about anything 'n crack up everybody....Somebody told me once that the best thing about old age was that it didn't last too long...in a sense, of course, they were right....life is itself short....it's like being a parent, when you begin to know what you're doing 'n you start getting good at it, your kids are grown 'n they move away....you have all this knowledge that you can't use....life is pretty much like that also....when you live long enuff that you begin to get a good grip on things, old age kicks you in the butt 'n stops your clock for you....reminds me of that old, old joke...."That's life!" "What's Life?" "A magazine." "How much does it cost?" "A dime." "I haven't got a dime." "That's life!"......
Ah well, it rains on the just 'n the unjust alike.....
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