Peekabo, I Almost See You Analysis

Middle-aged life is merry, and I love tolead it,

But there comes a day when your eyesare all right but your arm isn't longenoughto hold the telephone book where youcan read it,

And your friends get jocular, so you goto the oculist,

And of all your friends he is the joculist,

So over his facetiousness let us skim,

Only noting that he has been waiting for you ever sinceyou said Good evening to his grandfather clock underthe impression that it was him,

And you look at his chart and it says SHRDLU QWERTYOP,and you say Well, why SHRDNTLU QWERTYOP? and hesays one set of glasses won't do.

You need two.

One for reading Erle Stanley Gardner's Perry Mason andKeats's "Endymion" with,

And the other for walking around without saying Helloto strange wymion with.

So you spend your time taking off your seeing glasses to puton your reading glasses, and then remembering that yourreading glasses are upstairs or in the car,

And then you can't find your seeing glasses again becausewithout them on you can't see where they are.

Enough of such mishaps, they would try the patience of anox,

I prefer to forget both pairs of glasses and pass my decliningyears saluting strange women and grandfather clocks.

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