Atrium assisted living

[creativesoul]

Desperate to find a house
Away from room mates
Jumped on a sweet little severities house
With a yard and covered area
For my kind and devoted dog
Being able to toss a frisbee
Out the door at four in the morning
Is a beautiful thing

It's Friday
Behind the house
Is the kitchen for assisted living
Today is Friday: it smells like fish
In the morning it smells like bacon
I love it
I am not sure the dog does

[mnaz]

The dog wants it!

[creativesoul]

The gray matter
Of the grandmother
Was filled with cheese
And cracker from one drink at cocktail hour
For forty years

My generation was hugging the loud speakers on l s d
Now : 50% deaf I will get hearing aids in one week
Granny had heard enough
Threw hers away at 91
So much vision she had
Dancing and excercising for 50 years
At y m c a - college of the desert:
She had that hippo campus brain moving
But somehow
System said " over it " check out time
Alzhiemers is sad
Grandma was not in there anymore

[Doreen Peri]

Sounds really nice!

But what's a severities house?

[creativesoul]

70s ok- no stainless steel applicances
Just white , little wooden cabinets
With a covered area where I am be Georgia o keef

[creativesoul]

Transformation occurs at odd times in the sandy places
Larger than life rocks and shadows
The sky whispers stories of days gone by

[stilltrucking]

Thank you for the poem. Reminded me of this one from Zlatko the Waterman

The Aegis


is a fancy nursing home where
the walls are glass
and the columns are twittered with
rose plaster and goldfinches.
Every room has a window and is a real winner.
Winches, belt-thin, hoist
the ruined flanks to dinner.
A background of Haydn,
a foreground of porcelain bridges and
scooting replaced hips.
This is the finest chandelier light
glancing from Waterford goblets.
What’s in the basement?
More clean.
The bones are in the garden.


9/05

[mtmynd]

good reads abound from all
while i sit and absorb the
pleasantries of the aftermath.