My New Career

If I could lie about my age and take off thirty years

Maybe I could have myself a dozen more careers.

But no one looking at my face, all wrinkled up and docile,

could have the smallest doubt I am a venerable fossil.

My job skills reached their peak about the time that LBJ

Began the Great Society and Vietnam did flay.

Now I need retraining just to open my email

Or use that Power Point stuff without falling on my tail.

I wonder how old bankers are, and all those other bums

Who screwed up the economy and left us just the crumbs.

I could be out there robbing banks as my brand-new career;

And if I'm caught I simply say: "I'm just a financier!"