Wrinkles by Carl D'Agostino

Wrinkles by Carl D’Agostino

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September 7, 2012

Carl D'Agostino

Categories: poetry Tags: aging poem

18 responses to “Wrinkles by Carl D’Agostino”

earthriderjudyberman
September 7th, 2012 at 07:11

You wear it well, Carl. Love the collage.

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- Carl D'Agostino
  September 7th, 2012 at 08:57
  
  I loved college too. Took me 5 years and a summer session instead of four though.
  
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vbholmes
September 7th, 2012 at 09:27

Does the collage represent your clever cartoonist incarnation overriding the sergeant major?

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- Carl D'Agostino
  September 7th, 2012 at 09:38
  
  Hmmm. I’ll have to ask Siddhartha. Will get back to you.
  
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Maxi
September 7th, 2012 at 11:23

Good one, Carl. I wear my wrinkles like waves across the ocean. Sorry I’ve been absent, sick as a…
Blessings ~ Maxi

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- Carl D'Agostino
  September 7th, 2012 at 18:20
  
  How do we get the waves to wash away the wrinkles ?
  
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pattisj
September 7th, 2012 at 16:50

This is a good one, Carl. I, too, like collage.

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- Carl D'Agostino
  September 7th, 2012 at 18:20
  
  Thanks.
  
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Tony McGurk
September 8th, 2012 at 00:55

For some reason that picture makes me think of Ernest Hemmingway’s “The old man & the sea”

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- Carl D'Agostino
  September 8th, 2012 at 06:45
  
  “He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish”
  
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jannatwrites
September 8th, 2012 at 01:58

I think it’d be nice if we could keep this aging thing more of a secret. Everyone does not need to know about the lines stitched on my face

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- Carl D'Agostino
  September 8th, 2012 at 06:46
  
  Some secrets are written all over our faces.
  
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clinock
September 8th, 2012 at 03:12

Don’t know about “Sergeant major” – you look more like an old sea dog to me – pirate wanna be?

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- Carl D'Agostino
  September 8th, 2012 at 06:43
  
  Pulleeze, I need a Dramamine pill just to enter the bathtub. I get sea sick when it rains.
  
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Chris
September 8th, 2012 at 16:06

Love the poem, Carl. You are truly multi-talented.

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- Carl D'Agostino
  September 8th, 2012 at 16:08
  
  Gotta be careful with multi-one could be a three time loser.
  
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Cakes and Shakes...
September 9th, 2012 at 15:24

Lovely And the accompanying pic!

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- Carl D'Agostino
  September 9th, 2012 at 18:01
  
  I increase rank with each passing day.
  
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