Feeling It

"I am feeling it." He said. He meant his age. As I watched I saw a vision… Out from the cuttlefish bones of his breast grime coughed up and dribbled. I saw his heart stutter, the vapid flutter, watched his lungs belch and utter like a broken bladder. A horseman on a creaking steed raised its hoary head and pointed an ancient ladle speaking thus - "Stir me belly lad," it said, "spoon me sticky sump, dole globs of lymph from here to there. Me grease is dumpy and lumpy. Me hip-bones crunch while me dingle wilts and dangles. Me ears is gummy lad, I've gone to the bad.” The specter faded. The old guy smiles, rubs his thin hair. "I also see it sometimes," he says, "that liver-spotted ghost that chains me to an even older vision of you."