say what?

What with heavy earwax

And appearance of stray hair,

I will claim my hearing,

Though diminished, is still fair.

I can hear the phone ring –

Or is that the smoke alarm?

Who turned down the TV?

A little louder does no harm.

I can tell a bird song

From the buzzing of the bees;

Though birds are in the flowers

And the bees are in the trees.

Yes, I hear you talking

But your words are slurred a bit;

Your consonants are fuzzy

And your vowels have almost quit.

No one speaks distinctly

Anymore these past few years.

And so the fault is shoddy speech

And not my aged ears.

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