eric sundin

Arms faded & scrawny
flabby our middle
Many years since brawny
now mostly twiddle

Life has turned middling riddle
shows on faces craggy
screeches like mistuned fiddle
in melody draggy

On downward trajectory
our course & cause abstruse
Where’s a clear directory
for those of us obtuse?

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-abstruse = difficult to understand; obscure
-middling = run-of-the-mill
-obtuse = lacking in insight or discernment

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