Trying to find a job at fifty-three <br />Too old to work, too young for social security <br />They all want someone in their early twenties <br />That will go to work for mere pennies <br />I've got a twenty-five year old mind <br />But most employers don't want that kind <br />Going for interviews and they don't call <br />They think someone twenty has it on the ball <br />So I sit here and write poems all day <br />When my house works done I can play <br />You can't make money writing words <br />I enjoy it so, but this is for the birds <br />There is only so much house to clean <br />Can't get a job, because I'm not a teen <br /> I have a good life, don't want to complain <br />I guess at my age, you're not to supposed to have a brain <br />I think I'm going to have to retire <br />After all it's not me they are going to hire!<br /><br />Donna Nimmo<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/trying-to-find-a-job/
