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The Hen House

Cooped within ancient bodies, this inhabitant dwells amongst an elder net of crabby, crotchety, curmudgeonly claque of old folks, only a portion of population I met which achey, flaky, kooky motley crue disgruntlement fed as peevish pet aye be earnest asper assessment, but some getting ready and set to lay down limb mitt less lives, even those who survived harrowing encounters as a vet. quotidian gossipers punctuate air waves while: sitting, riding, quartering, puttering, operating, navigating, motoring around on scooters (the sole means of locomotion for many elderly residents), whose sole occupation incorporates: yelping, yakking, whining, weeping, verbalizing, uttering, thundering, squawking, squabbling, screeching, rumbling, quibbling, quarreling, prattling, pestering, offending, needling, mumbling, maligning, leering, lampooning, kvetching, kibitzing, jabbering, irritating, insinuating, heckling, harping, gabbing, fulminating, fretting, exclaiming, emoting, denigrating, carping, cackling, begging, agitating, acting analogous to bad ass kids itching for playground foo fight during recess, which comparison might be apropos since majority of energy and time expended complaining about nobody's business concerning this, that, or another tenant... (management not exempt from badmouth outbursts), where nondenominational AARP qualified members congregate within what constituted former auditorium of repurposed elementary school, hence quite some years ago (an honorable NON GMO gluten free cheerful toast made, instituting batter use then building standing vacant) a bona fide unanimous dogmatic, heroic, linguistic welcome sans titular viz zit head where alumni of alluded alma mater, ivory fiery, classy academic solvent atomic structure became amalgamated, appropriated, assigned a new life, whereat fob dost electronically activate innermost recessed sliding doors, principally, quintessentially, resoundingly availing maw formerly entrancing students into Schwenksville Elementary School, though some years ago repurposed with barely a trace constituting current subsidized how zing facility re: Highland Manor, the residence of thyself and missus (approaching third month anniversary), whereat I dune hot give a rats ass if aimless airless baseless banter, ceaseless chatter, dubious dabbling, et cetera if this solitary ruminate thinker the subject de jure of parlayed people portraying penultimate purposelessness.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2017




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