Despite the fallen arches

The gout confirmed today

The excess of fat and starches

That hobble fluent play

The failing eyes that blind us

The cartilages worn

The broken noses snoring (wife’s roaring!)

Insomniac til dawn

Rheumatic when it’s raining

Arthritic when it’s fine

Prostate way past its prime

Haemorrhoids completing

This list of slow decay

Still blither than the larks is

We plays on Saturday