Poetic Obituaries: In the 1960s, as the political heat

of his younger years began to cool, Mr. [Leon] Malkin moved to Silver Spring and held accounting jobs with the D.C. and Montgomery County governments before retiring at 64.

After his wife died in 1983, he moved to Leisure World in Silver Spring, where he became something of a resident character, known for his wry poems and pronouncements on any occasion. He approached his final years with a cheerful cynicism.

"The only good thing about being a senior is you get senior discounts," he wrote in one of his notebooks. "The rest is all nonsense. What we all have in common is aches and pains and walkers and canes."

from The Washington Post: Leon Malkin, 98; longtime leftist

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