I like these aging poems. It gives me hope for an older future
LGBTI communities here are working on aging... the gay liberation
generation are now aged care (those who survived and I am not sure
survival is a good thing, having made it this far)
On 15/05/13 18:58, Patrick McManus wrote:
> HOTEL SAN PANCHO
>
> in the hotel
> San Pancho
> in Benidorm
> in the restaurant
> he at seventy four
> unusually
> for these days
> felt at least
> twenty years younger
> that those sitting
> at the other tables
> ancients frozen in time
> rusted to their seats
> couples slightly cobwebbed
> nodding off slowly
> no longer talking
> vaguely staring
> into food
> arthritic hands
> tensing
>
>
> pmcmanus
> r349
> draft something I am playing with
> Wednesday, 15 May 2013
>
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