It's not easy making new friends but when old friends move or die or cut contact with you. Two poems with some ideas that might help at those times.

Poetry reading: Making friends when you’re old (or young) is hard

This is Learning How To Be Old, a guide to the pleasures and possibilities of your future old age. I'm Rachel McAlpine and I'm in my 80s. I used to be aware of old people but I never dreamed I might become one myself. They were like an alien species. Well, here I am and so far it’s been pretty interesting. Listen if you think you might be old one day.

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