Now we’re into numbers I can feel
My dad was 5 in 1925
I was born when he was 29, so 1949
Now those are numbers you can say
Unlike 2007, it doesn’t roll
2049 is easy too, I’ll be 100
Is that “a hundred” or “one hundred”
I’ll be the stoic old man by the window
101 outside in the shade
Is that one oh one or one hundred and one
Is aught still a word?
Now a broken rock turns up in my yard
Several of them, a busted up pool table
Beveled bolt holes, cut out corners, inch and a half thick
One peice, a triangle, as big as a tomb stone
Has a lot number carved in, 78 2028
As I was thinking about. numbers I came to a stop
There are about six weeks there at the beginning of 2028
When I will be 78