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Old Age Blues

J. B. Pick

I don’t know what I used to know.
I don’t say that it isn’t so,
I’ve just forgotten. That’s a blow.
When you know nothing, then you go.

The world keeps changing, things must grow;
You spend life learning, but it’s slow;
Perhaps my status isn’t quo.
I don’t know what I used to know.

Well, I must watch, not let it show,
Greet the morning, say ‘hello’;
When you know nothing, then you go.
I don’t know what I used to know.


J. B. Pick

from Being Here (Drumlins, 2001)

Reproduced by permission of the Estate of J.B. Pick.

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change failing memory resilience the blues
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J. B. Pick1921 - 2015

John Barclay Pick was a writer and critic, and the biographer of Neil Gunn. His deep knowledge of Scottish literature and the work he did to share that knowledge with others was recognised when he was made an Honorary...
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