It must have been lost in the post
Never received it by email
Voicemail choked on its toast
Imps must have fouled-up the detail
Telegraph posts gnarled upended
And all carrier pigeons shot
Text messages tattered un-mended 
Impressively Morse lost its dots
Only left me with commiseration 
Not an invite to the coronation
 

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Prompt - why do middle-aged men bitch so much?

Grumpy Old-ish Men

There are many reasons for it
So I’ll mention just a few
Why do we fellas moan so much
Why do we bitch and stew?

Time is the biggest problem;
We’ve got too much somehow 
We don’t have to hunt to live 
Or mine coal or work the plough

And yet, by contradiction
Time brings a sense of dread
For we’ve likely more behi...

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