When people get old;

They smell funny.

Baby smells like powder, all soft with clean fresh skin.

Mama smells like marshmallows, apples and cinnamon.

Daddy smells like dial soap, after shave and minty gum.

But grandpa smells like moth balls, muscle rub and old bay rum.

Grandma smells like chicken soup that’s been boiling in a pot.

You think she would notice how Grandpa smells, but it seems like she does not.

When Grandpa comes to our house, he sits in a big corduroy chair.

After he’s gone for 2 whole days it still smells like he’s there.

All you people who aren’t old yet, you think “it can’t happen to me.”

I’m pretty sure it can, and probably will, think what you want, but you’ll see.

All old people smell funny, cause their clothes are like 40 years old.

“They were made to last in the olden days”- that’s what we’re told.

But you shouldn’t wear sweaters that smell like soup from 1972. 

No one is impressed when you say, “My clothes are older than you.”

Maybe as an insurance policy to keep from smelling funny

You could get a job in a perfume shop, you might even make some extra money.

You could use it to buy some new clothes that smell like the century we’re in now.

It doesn’t matter what you do really, old people smell funny, and how!

Until Next Tine

Your Friend, Tracy