Old People

Old people are more than just raisins with hair.

Old People

Old people look like raisins with hair

Perfumed in mothballs and vaporub

Ready for the prom which waits for them

The mirror tells the elderly they are teens

Sometimes the mirror lies

I was once old but now I am not

I threw the mirror to see time fly

But it always comes back more cracked

Certainly a reflection on things to come

The elderly walk in an angular momentum

Guided by a cane which swings at children

Children should apologize to the cane

They should know better than to offend

Crossing lines turn into wrinkles over time

Each night old people pitch their tents closer to the end

If they pitch them too close they will fall over

At this rate they will reach the sun by morning