Richard Kenney

1948 - / Glens Falls, New York.

Differential Solutions

When men get to feeling old
they don't know what to do.
They gaze around for some elixir
to fix their thews.

Mostly it's in women,
though oftentimes in drinks
or cars or mere mechanicals
they'll find their minx.

Women on the other hand,
organic from the start,
solve the problem differently,
with mind, not heart:

they root for herbs and balms and simples
(howe'er their doctors doubt them):
they stopper them in bottles and they
talk about them.
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