To Joe

Wish that I could buy for you a nice new lounging chair...
There's got to be a newer, nicer, softer one somewhere !
I really wanted us to take a cruise across the seas,
But that was quashed when thinking of our bad backs and weak knees.

I am sure that you would like another puppy dog,
But we can't handle what we have --- our minds are in a fog.
So, for your birthday, how about a nice big hug or two,
And promises for gifts galore sometime from me to you ?

Here's a fifty-dollar bill to buy your heart's desire...
Just think of all the "stuff" this dough would help you to acquire !
But let's get smarter, now that you are turning eighty-seven:
Let's DOWN-SIZE....you know, we can't take it to Heaven.