Elderwood Village
Let's workshop this poem about a senior citizen who has had enough of being infantilized by his caregivers
Elderwood Village
After the man
in the old age home yelled
“I’m no kid” in reply
to the infantilizing tone
that bore “Eat your din din,
sweetie," his caregiver took
the hands-up-in-arrest tone—
exaggerated, to fake
cool nonchalance—
of someone anxious
to settle an erect cobra.