Getting Older Has its Good Points

Getting older has its good points
...and its bad…
I grow older ever wiser
but it's still a little sad…
 
People just don't listen…
'less one causes a frisson...to run up and down their knobby spines.
 
Wisdom is often wasted…
on folks who've never tasted  
what it is to doubt... their own veracity.
 
I'll opt for wisdom over stupid any day...
looks to be the smarter choice, anyway...  
 
I have learned to pay attention to stray thoughts mostly unmentioned  
that pop into my head upon their way.
 
They got somewhere else to be… you bet your bippy…
and though sometimes it isn't very pretty ...they rarely return...more's the pity.