Ogden Nash: People expect old men to die
29 April 2021
People expect old men to die,
They do not really mourn old men.
Old men are different. People look
At them with eyes that wonder when…
People watch with unshocked eyes;
But the old men know when an old man dies.
—Ogden Nash (1902–1971)
Image by Bijay Chaurasia at Wikimedia Commons
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