{"id":439,"date":"2009-02-05T04:16:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T08:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2009\/02\/05\/wednesday-night-i-grow-old-i-grow-old\/"},"modified":"2009-02-05T04:16:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-05T08:16:00","slug":"wednesday-night-i-grow-old-i-grow-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2009\/02\/05\/wednesday-night-i-grow-old-i-grow-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday night – i grow old. i grow old"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I just got the first sign of my impending half century.. Yes.. I received my AARP card… Is that sobering or what.. ?!\u00a0\u00a0 Actually.. I think it’s kinda cool. These folks must watch everyone’s birthday for the first inking of 50-ish\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n

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Makes me think of\u00a0 those great\u00a0 closing lines from TS Eliot’s “Lovesong of\u00a0 J. Alfred Prufrock “
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ..<\/p>\n..<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
I grow old \u2026 I grow old \u2026<\/td>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0120<\/i><\/a><\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.<\/td>\n<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?<\/td>\n<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.<\/td>\n<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.<\/td>\n<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
I do not think that they will sing to me.<\/td>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0125<\/i><\/a><\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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I have seen them riding seaward on the waves<\/td>\n<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Combing the white hair of the waves blown back<\/td>\n<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
When the wind blows the water white and black.<\/td>\n<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
We have lingered in the chambers of the sea<\/td>\n<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown<\/td>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0130<\/i><\/a><\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Till human voices wake us, and we drown.<\/p>\n

I grow old, I grow old.. sounds kinda nice.. Love you all. Nite Sam
-me<\/td>\n

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I just got the first sign of my impending half century.. Yes.. I received my AARP card… Is that sobering or what.. ?!\u00a0\u00a0 Actually.. I think it’s kinda cool. These folks must watch everyone’s birthday for the first inking of 50-ish\u00a0\u00a0 Makes me think of\u00a0 those great\u00a0 closing lines from TS Eliot’s “Lovesong of\u00a0 J. … Continue reading Wednesday night – i grow old. i grow old<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}