Fixer-Upper
I am a fixer-upper. My joints are caving in.
My parts are getting even with a long life lived in sin.
Way too many hamburgers, fries and Hershey bars.
Too little time spent jogging — too much time spent in cars.
The fact I’ve been degraded, I admit is not disputable,
for since my early teens my shape has been too often mutable.
I tried to stage a victory over this decline
sometime in my thirties, but somewhere down the line
my resolve grew weaker and I gave up on pilates.
It was too degrading competing with the hotties
who clinched their little derrieres and flexed their perfect arms.
I simply could not stand the comparison of charms.
I’ll never flip this body. I can’t touch neck to heel.
How can I execute “down dog” when I can barely kneel?
In spite of diligent efforts now and then throughout my life,
with starts and futile endings my biography is rife,
I came up with excuses, I “hee”d and “haw”ed and “hem”med.
Then finally had to admit, this property is condemned!
Prompts today are fixer-upper, diligent, victory, mutable and degraded. Photo by Basil Anas on Unsplash, used with permission.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
Hilarious!
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Good poem but really sad thoughts~! You do know that my dreams of old houses run much more on good thoughts… Well I guess both could very well be true.. I will try to forget your slant and remember mine.
This gives a good idea of my slant~!
SAM
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Hi Judy, I often feel this way and then I get the urge to make changes to this old body. I’ll let you know if my latest endeavour works. Carol
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I’m doing the same. I’m sure we’ll have the occasion to talk about it. See you Tuesday.
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Oh no. Not yet, Judy! The house can be made good again!
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Okay, damn it. I’ll go back to pilates!!!!
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I’m working at it even if my poem has given up. I’ve actually lost 45 lbs. in the past ten months,
which is a good start.
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Just needs a little love, Judy.
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The house or the woman?
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Maybe both. 😊
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You made me laugh out loud!🤣😂😉
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