4 February 2013

Three for my 65th birthday:

No beautiful corpse
No fast living.  Sixty-five,
And I'm still alive,

I always thought that
I'd die before I got old.
And yet, here I am.

 

"Bis hundert zwanzig."
A yiddish toast:  "May you live
As long as Moses."

 

4 February 2013