let's grow old together

I'll work out so that
when you're down
I'll pick you up
and princess-carry you
and swing you around
and
you'll be laughing

you'll stand bemusedly at my side as
I play-act
I yell at the kids to
get.
off.
my.
lawn
you little delinquents your
dirty little feet are ruining my sod
stop laughing--

and
when those delinquents
have some of their own to contend with
I'll buy a few words
embossed on a park bench
and sit with the memory of you,
laughing