James Edward Lee Sr. Poet Free verse

Just the Way of the Aged

Plastic cups, filled with medicine;
                  Little preschool boys and girls with revelations;
                              I am part of the new reunion;
                                   It's just an opinion;
              Are you gonna get that purple visions of retaliations;
                             Kool Aid made from Nebraska;
                               What time is it any way?
                      Who canceled my New York Times paper;
                           NO,  NO I AIN't NA ENABLER;
a fabric washed and worn over and over again until it's tattered and torn
a blade of grass,  a flower in summertime burning under the sun
a pot left on the tip of the stove burning beyond over cooked charred
                                     Sunset to dawn, 
                          a new birth day month,  year, gone

                                           Just
                                           The 
                                           Way
                                  of 
                                      the 
                                            Aged

written by James Edward Lee Sr.
August 08 2014 (c)
chosen for University of Nebraska @ Omaha
   Poetry to Bridge Generations Compilation
          Poems for and about the Elderly

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