Residents

Freeverse

That cream-coloured car is there again

in the parking space at that block of white flats.

She's there every weekday, its owner:

a warden, official, administrator?

Does she work in a room there,

or wander the corridors, nattering to residents

who seem to be the walking dead?

Or does she shut herself away till home time?

Why do I find an interest in

that block of apartments,

full of those who amble from one part to another,

if able to move, are not closed off?

Am I to find myself in that place one day soon,

or dead before they can haul me there?

(Sep 2022)

Reviews

[Ken e Bujold]

I'm entering that stage of life where thoughts of my own mortality are constantly creeping in, so this read touches a nerve Andrew. Well done

Ken e

[jacob erin-cilberto]

I would rather be dead than moved into a place in which I have to be taken care of.
I need to fend for myself...or not at all.
j.

[Ken e Bujold]

I share your sentiment Jacob, though if they have pretty nurse or two, or even another resident who remembers her teeth in the morning, I might be willing to spend a few last dottering days chasing rhymes through bedlam