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Poem: Growing up
Growing up is easy
just eat and sleep
and the odd game of soccer
and one day your big
but growing up, growing up
aka. maturing into a functional adult
that's another story
I've met seventy year olds that never matured
grumpy old buggers who never learned their lesson
how they got to seventy without dying i'll never know
get another ciggee inta pal
that poker machine looks like its ready to pay out champ
the truth being
unless you've got really good role models around you
in which case you can just mimic them and your 85% the way there
you have to learn to be an adult
you have to understand yourself
and you don't do that by thinking about yourself
yourself tells lies
you have to learn
and some people just don't like to learn
so they don't grow up
and they die early
and they ruin their relationships
and they get into debt because they thought it would be cool to own a speedboat
or they thought the only thing holding them back was a larger set of titties
people hey
can't live with 'em
pass the beer nuts
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Published 10-2-2026
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