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That Is No Country For Young Men

by: elwood

Thu May 14, 2009 at 20:57:59 PM EDT
New Hampshire's median age has gone above 40 years old for the first time since records have been kept... The median age of 40.2 years put New Hampshire in a tie with Florida for fourth oldest state in the nation. Aside from Maine (42.0), only Vermont (41.2) and West Virginia (40.6) are older.
linky

An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress,
Nor is there singing school but studying
Monuments of its own magnificence;
And therefore I have sailed the seas and come
To the holy city of Byzantium.
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Time (4.00 / 2)
Time held me green and dying,
And I sang in my chains like the sea.

At least it wasn't Newsweek.

In some attic (4.00 / 1)
there is old Caedmon vinyl of A Child's Christmas in Wales with Fern Hill on the B side. We had it when I was a wee lad.

I heard Dylan Thomas' voice in those lines just now but had to Google to be confident. My own is WB Yeats...

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Aye (4.00 / 1)
The emperor's drunken soldiery are abed.
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beg your pardon ? n/t (0.00 / 0)


"Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does." Allen Ginsberg
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watch the emperor talk son n/t (4.00 / 1)


"Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does." Allen Ginsberg
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Yet in the words of Mose Allison .... (4.00 / 1)
But you know nowadays
It's the old man
who's got all the money
And a young man
ain't got nothin' in the world these days

...a dn the Who apparently agreed, performing this on Live at Leeds in 1970.

 "We should pay attention to that man behind the curtain."

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Story of my life - (4.00 / 1)
I was a Young Man for those blues, at least for the Who's rendition.

Now that I'm an Old Man we ain't got all the money.

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Ogden Nash (4.00 / 2)
I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance,
Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.


Trust me. (4.00 / 3)
I've noticed.
Good to see you back, Nick! n/t (4.00 / 1)

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I'm a Doin' n/t (0.00 / 0)

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