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“Old Men” by
Ogden Nash
🇺🇸
(
19 Aug 1902
–
19 May 1971
)
People expect old men to die,
They do not really mourn old men.
Old men are different. People look
At them with eyes that wonder when …
People watch with unshocked eyes;
But the old men know when an old man dies.