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Life is truly a ride

We're all strapped in.
When the doctor slaps your behind,
he's ripping your ticket and
away you go.

As you make each passage
from youth to maturity,
sometimes you put your arms up
and just scream.

Somtimes all you can do is hang on
to the bar in front of you.
It is the ride
that is the thing.

I think the most you can hope for
at the end of life is that
your hair's messed up,
you have a smile on your face,

that only you know how it got there,
you've used up all you had,
you're out of breath and
you didn't throw up on yourself.

poem by Tom J. Mariani
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