Poems and Thoughts    by Frank Maurer

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Rationalizing Age. While chatting on the phone with my son, Pierre, today, I mentioned my continual, 'gentle', consistent pain In my somewhat unsuccessful hip replacement. I told him that at 82, to endure this 'Inconvenience' with my ambulation, I just rationalize, and tell myself quietly,-- 'I am only pretending that I am simply old!' Frank Maurer 5 March 2024 1050 Hours.