Wrinkles -
They creep up on you;
The first time I saw them was a few years back
On my neck when I twisted it in some strange way;
Luckily, difficult to recreate.
Then I saw some today
On the bottom of my upper arm
The part someone nicknamed reverse biceps;
Again, only a brief appearance when I did something unusual.
On Sunday Meena and I were discussing hair coloring
When her six-year old Borun points to a black head of oriental hair
To show us the color of his hair.
When I reminisce that my hair used to also be that color he says
“But now you’re old”.
Old in Singapore
A city where the only old people are the really old Chinese men and an occasional tourist.
It won’t be long before we all get treated like the couple in the elevator this morning:
On entering they found that Level 1 was correctly pressed
But both the bus boy and I couldn’t help pointing out that the lobby was on Level 3
Just because -
They looked old.
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