<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="" style="color: rgb(20, 24, 35); line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Respect Your Elders</span><div class=""><span class="" style="color: rgb(20, 24, 35); line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="color: rgb(20, 24, 35); line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">When you see me sitting quietly,</span><div class=""><span class="" style="color: rgb(20, 24, 35); line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> Like a sack left on the shelf,</span><br class="" style="color: rgb(20, 24, 35); line-height: 19px; "><span class="" style="color: rgb(20, 24, 35); line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Don’t think I need your chattering.</span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="color: rgb(20, 24, 35); line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> I’m listening to myself.</span><br class="" style="color: rgb(20, 24, 35); line-height: 19px; "><span class="" style="color: rgb(20, 24, 35); line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Hold! Stop! Don’t pity me! Hold! </span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="color: rgb(20, 24, 35); line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Stop your sympathy!</span><br class="" style="color: rgb(20, 24, 35); line-height: 19px; "><span class="" style="color: rgb(20, 24, 35); line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Understanding if you’ve got it, </span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="color: rgb(20, 24, 35); line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Otherwise I’ll do without it!</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; color: rgb(20, 24, 35); line-height: 19px; "><br class="">...When you see me walking, stumbling, </span><div class=""><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; color: rgb(20, 24, 35); line-height: 19px; ">Don’t study and get it wrong.</span></div><div class=""><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; color: rgb(20, 24, 35); line-height: 19px; "> ‘Cause tired don’t mean lazy </span></div><div class=""><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; color: rgb(20, 24, 35); line-height: 19px; ">And every goodbye ain’t gone.<br class="">I’m the same person I was back then,</span></div><div class=""><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; color: rgb(20, 24, 35); line-height: 19px; "> A little less hair, a little less chin, </span></div><div class=""><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; color: rgb(20, 24, 35); line-height: 19px; ">A lot less lungs, much less wind.</span></div><div class=""><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; color: rgb(20, 24, 35); line-height: 19px; "> But ain’t I lucky I can still breathe in…</span></div><div class=""><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; color: rgb(20, 24, 35); line-height: 19px; "><br></span></div></div><div class=""><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; color: rgb(20, 24, 35); line-height: 19px; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>- Maya Angelou</span></div></div></body></html>